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The leading order dynamics of the type IIB Large Volume Scenario is characterised by the interplay between α′ and non-perturbative effects which fix the overall volume and all local blow-up modes leaving (in general) several flat directions. In this paper we show that, in an arbitrary Calabi-Yau with at least one blow-up mode resolving a point-like singularity, any remaining flat directions can be lifted at subleading order by the inclusions of higher derivative α′ corrections. We then focus on simple fibred cases with one remaining flat direction which can behave as an inflaton if its potential is generated by both higher derivative α′ and winding loop corrections. Natural values of the underlying parameters give a spectral index in agreement with observational data and a tensor-to-scalar ratio of order r = 0.01 which could be observed by forthcoming CMB experiments. Dangerous corrections from higher dimensional operators are suppressed due to the presence of an approximate non-compact shift symmetry.
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Cicoli, M., Ciupke, D., de Alwis, S. et al. α′ Inflation: moduli stabilisation and observable tensors from higher derivatives. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 26 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)026
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