Axion Monodromy Inflation on Warped Throats

Understand

Recent models of axion monodromy inflation in string theory link the inflationary potential and the moduli stabilization potential.

• Realistic inflationary models require mechanisms to moderately suppress the inflaton mass with respect to the moduli stabilization scale.
• In this paper we explore the realization of this idea using warped throats, whose redshifted infrared region supports the inflaton mode.
• The inflaton potential and its monodromy arise from couplings to the fluxes supporting the throat.