Affleck-Dine baryogenesis after thermal inflation

We argue that an extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) that gives rise to viable thermal inflation, and so does not suffer from a Polonyi or moduli problem, should contain right-handed neutrinos which acquire their masses due to the vacuum expectation value of the flaton that drives thermal inflation. This strongly disfavors SO(10) grand unified theories. The $\mu$ term of the MSSM should also arise due to the VEV of the flaton. With the extra assumption that $m_L^2-m_{H_u}^2<0\mathrm{}$, but, of course, $m_L^2-m_{H_u}^2+{\left|\mu \right|}^2>0\mathrm{}$, we show that a complicated Affleck-Dine-type baryogenesis employing an $L{H}_u$ $D$-flat direction can naturally generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe.