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Moduli and multi-field inflation
Moduli with flat or run-away classical potentials are generic in theories
based on supersymmetry and extra dimensions. They mix between themselves and
with matter fields in kinetic terms and in the nonperturbative superpotentials.
As the result, interesting structure appears in the scalar potential which
helps to stabilise and trap moduli and leads to multi-field inflation. The new
and attractive feature of multi-inflationary setup are isocurvature
perturbations which can modify in an interesting way the final spectrum of
primordial fluctuations resulting from inflation.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, based on talks given at CTP Symposium on
Supersymmetry at LHC (Cairo, March 11-14 2007) and String Phenomenology 2007
(Frascati, June 4-8 2007
"Big" Divisor D3/D7 Swiss Cheese Phenomenology
We review progress made over the past couple of years in the field of Swiss
Cheese Phenomenology involving a mobile space-time filling D3-brane and
stack(s) of fluxed D7-branes wrapping the "big" (as opposed to the "small")
divisor in (the orientifold of a) Swiss-Cheese Calabi-Yau. The topics reviewed
include reconciliation of large volume cosmology and phenomenology, evaluation
of soft supersymmetry breaking parameters, one-loop RG-flow equations'
solutions for scalar masses, obtaining fermionic (possibly first two
generations' quarks/leptons) mass scales in the O(MeV-GeV)-regime as well as
(first two generations') neutrino masses (and their one-loop RG flow) of around
an eV. The heavy sparticles and the light fermions indicate the possibility of
"split SUSY" large volume scenario.Comment: Invited review for MPLA, 14 pages, LaTe
Asymptotically conical Calabi-Yau manifolds, I
This is the first part in a two-part series on complete Calabi-Yau manifolds
asymptotic to Riemannian cones at infinity. We begin by proving general
existence and uniqueness results. The uniqueness part relaxes the decay
condition needed in earlier work to ,
relying on some new ideas about harmonic functions. We then look at a few
examples: (1) Crepant resolutions of cones. This includes a new class of
Ricci-flat small resolutions associated with flag manifolds. (2) Affine
deformations of cones. One focus here is the question of the precise rate of
decay of the metric to its tangent cone. We prove that the optimal rate for the
Stenzel metric on is .Comment: 27 pages, various corrections, final versio
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