Abstract
The three-year data from WMAP are in stunning agreement with the simplest possiblequadratic potential for chaotic inflation, as well as with new or symmetry-breakinginflation. We investigate the possibilities for incorporating these potentials withinsupergravity, particularly of the no-scale type that is motivated by string theory. Modelswith inflation driven by the matter sector may be constructed in no-scale supergravity, ifthe moduli are assumed to be stabilized by some higher-scale dynamics and at the expenseof some fine-tuning. We discuss specific scenarios for stabilizing the moduli via eitherD- orF-terms in the effective potential and survey possible inflationary models in the presence ofD-term stabilization.
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