Winding out of the Swamp: Evading the Weak Gravity Conjecture with
  F-term Winding Inflation?
  We present a new model of large field inflation along a winding trajectory in
the field space of two axionic fields, where the 'axions' originate from the
complex structure moduli sector of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold at large complex
structure. The winding trajectory arises from fixing one combination of axions
by bulk fluxes and allows for a transplanckian effective field range. The
inflaton potential arises from small 'instantonic' corrections to the geometry
and realises natural inflation. By working in a regime of large complex
structure for two complex structure moduli the inflaton potential can be made
subdominant without severe tuning. We also discuss the impact of the recent
'no-go theorems' for transplanckian axion periodicities on our work.
Interestingly, our setup seems to realise a loophole pointed out in
arXiv:1503.00795 and arXiv:1503.04783: our construction is a candidate for a
string theory model of large field inflation which is consistent with the mild
form of the weak gravity conjecture for axions.
