Models of Inflation on D-Branes
Abstract
Description
We obtain models of chaotic, slow--roll, hybrid and D--term inflation from the Hanany--Witten brane configuration and its deformations. The deformations are given by the different orientations of the branes and control the parameters of the scalar potential such as the inflaton mass, Yukawa couplings and the anomalous D--term. The different inflationary models are continuously connected and arise in different limits of the parameter space. We describe a compactified version of the brane construction that also leads to models of inflation.
24 pages in phyzzx.tex, typos corrected; v3 more typos corrected; v4 more minor corrections
24 pages in phyzzx.tex, typos corrected; v3 more typos corrected; v4 more minor corrections