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Higgs-otic inflation and moduli stabilization
We study closed-string moduli stabilization in Higgs-otic inflation in Type IIB orientifold backgrounds with fluxes. In this setup large-field inflation is driven by the vacuum energy of mobile D7-branes. Imaginary selfdual (ISD) three-form fluxes in the background source a μ-term and the necessary monodromy for large field excursions while imaginary …