Chaotic Brane Inflation
  We illustrate a framework for constructing models of chaotic inflation where
the inflaton is the position of a D3 brane along the universal cover of a
string compactification. In our scenario, a brane rolls many times around a
non-trivial one-cycle, thereby unwinding a Ramond-Ramond flux. These "flux
monodromies" are similar in spirit to the monodromies of Silverstein, Westphal,
and McAllister, and their four-dimensional description is that of Kaloper and
Sorbo. Assuming moduli stabilization is rigid enough, the large-field
inflationary potential is protected from radiative corrections by a discrete
shift symmetry.
