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Most successful models of inflation in supergravity have a shift symmetry for the inflaton and contain a stabilizer field coupled to the inflaton in a particular way. We argue that the natural interpretation of the stabilizer, from the viewpoint of the shift symmetry, is a three-form multiplet. Its coupling to the inflaton is uniquely determined by the shift symmetry and the invariance under three-form gauge transformations and has a natural string theory interpretation.
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Dudas, E. Three-form multiplet and inflation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 14 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2014)014
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