Statistical Anisotropy from Vector Curvaton in D-brane Inflation
  We investigate the possibility of embedding the vector curvaton paradigm in
D-brane models of inflation in Type IIB string theory in a simple toy model.
The vector curvaton is identified with the U(1) gauge field that lives on the
world volume of a D3-brane, which may be stationary or undergoing general
motion in the internal space. The dilaton is considered as a spectator field
which modulates the evolution of the vector field. In this set up, the vector
curvaton is able to generate measurable statistical anisotropy in the spectrum
and bispectrum of the curvature perturbation assuming that the dilaton evolves
as e^(-\phi)\propto a^2 where a(t) is the scale factor. Our work constitutes a
first step towards exploring how such distinctive features may arise from the
presence of several light fields that naturally appear in string theory models
of cosmology.
