Statistical anisotropy from vector curvaton in D-brane inflation |
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Authors: | Konstantinos Dimopoulos Danielle Wills Ivonne Zavala |
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Institution: | 1. Consortium for Fundamental Physics, Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK;2. Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics and Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Nußallee 12, D-53115 Bonn, Germany |
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Abstract: | We investigate the possibility of embedding the vector curvaton paradigm in D-brane models of inflation in type IIB string theory in a simple toy model. The vector curvaton is identified with the U(1) gauge field that lives on the world volume of a D3-brane, which may be stationary or undergoing general motion in the internal space. The dilaton is considered as a spectator field which modulates the evolution of the vector field. In this set-up, the vector curvaton is able to generate measurable statistical anisotropy in the spectrum and bispectrum of the curvature perturbation assuming that the dilaton evolves as e−?∝a2 where a(t) is the scale factor. Our work constitutes a first step towards exploring how such distinctive features may arise from the presence of several light fields that naturally appear in string theory models of cosmology. |
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Keywords: | Vector curvaton D-brane inflation Statistical anisotropy Non-Gaussianity |
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