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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 75, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.123508
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We derive a microscopic bound on the maximal field variation of the inflaton during warped D-brane inflation. By a result of Lyth, this implies an upper limit on the amount of gravitational waves produced during inflation. We show that a detection at the level r > 0.01 would falsify slow roll D-brane inflation. In DBI (Dirac-Born-Infeld) inflation, detectable tensors may be possible in special compactifications, provided that r decreases rapidly during inflation. We also show that for the special case of DBI inflation with a quadratic potential, current observational constraints imply strong upper bounds on the five-form flux.
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