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On the possibility of large axion decay constants

On the possibility of large axion decay constants

The decay constant of the QCD axion is required by observation to be small compared with the Planck scale. In theories of `natural inflation' and certain proposed anthropic solutions of the cosmological constant problem it would be interesting to obtain a large decay constant for axion-like fields from microscopic physics. …