Dilaton–Axion modular inflation in supergravity

Abstract

Dilaton and axion are ubiquitous in extended supergravities and closed superstrings. We propose new models of modular inflation in four-dimensional [Formula: see text] supergravity coupled to the chiral dilaton–axion–goldstino supermultiplet, which fit some necessary conditions of superstring cosmology. The model parameters are tuned to obey precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation. We employ the modular-invariant superpotentials and asymptotically modular-invariant Kähler potentials, and achieve axion stabilization with high-scale supersymmetry breaking.