Large volume axionic Swiss cheese inflation Original Research Article

Continuing with the ideas of (Section 4 of) [A. Misra, P. Shukla, Moduli stabilization, large-volume dS minimum without anti-D3-branes, (non-)supersymmetric black hole attractors and two-parameter Swiss cheese Calabi–Yauʹs, , Nucl. Phys. B, in press], after inclusion of perturbative and non-perturbative image corrections to the Kähler potential and (D1- and D3-) instanton generated superpotential, we show the possibility of slow roll axionic inflation in the large volume limit of Swiss cheese Calabi–Yau orientifold compactifications of type IIB string theory. We also include one- and two-loop corrections to the Kähler potential but find the same to be subdominant to the (perturbative and non-perturbative) image corrections. The NS–NS axions provide a flat direction for slow roll inflation to proceed from a saddle point to the nearest dS minimum.