Abstract
We study the possibility of extended inflation in the effective theory of gravity from strings compactified to four dimensions and find that it strongly depends on the mechanism of supersymmetry breaking. We consider a general class of string-inspired models which are good candidates for sucessful extended inflation. In particular, the ω-problem of ordinary extended inflation is automatically solved by the production of only very small bubbles until the end of inflation. We find that the inflation field could belong either to the untwisted or to the twisted massless sectors of the string spectrum, depending on the supersymmetry breaking superpotential.
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