D-branes and cosmic structure

Wills, Danielle and Dimopoulos, Konstantinos and Zavala, Ivonne (2013) D-branes and cosmic structure. In: Proceedings of the Barcelona Postgrad Encounters in Fundamental Physics :. Daniel Fernandez Moreno, Spain, pp. 179-190. ISBN 9788461642939

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Abstract

We outline the embedding of the vector curvaton scenario as a promising mechanism to generate statistical anisotropy within Type IIB string theory, where the vector field on a single D-brane plays the role of the vector curvaton. We first consider a toy model in the context of open string inflation, and then begin to construct a concrete model in the context of closed string inflation.