Large field inflation and string moduli stabilization

Abstract

Recent developments on large scale string moduli stabilization via non-geometric fluxes are reviewed. In the framework of type IIB orientifolds on fluxed Calabi-Yau manifolds, the existence of so-called flux-scaling minima provides a good starting point for the realization of parametrically controlled models of F-term axion monodromy inflation.

Comments: Contribution to the proceedings of the 18th International Conference `From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale', 25-29 May 2015, Ioannina, Greece