1303.5581 (Danielle Wills et al.)

D-branes and cosmic structure    [PDF]

Danielle Wills, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Ivonne Zavala

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.

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