On UV finiteness of the four loop N=8 supergravity

被引:25
作者
Kallosh, Renata [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS | 2009年 / 09期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Models of Quantum Gravity; Supergravity Models;
D O I
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/116
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
The 4-loop 4-point amplitude in N=8 d=4 supergravity is UV finite due to supersymmetry. Even better UV behavior of the 4-loop 4-point amplitude, analogous to that of N=4 SYM theory, has been recently established by computation in [1]. All n-point 4-loop amplitudes with n > 5 are finite on dimensional grounds. However, the situation with the 5-point amplitudes remained unclear. In this paper we will show that the 5-point 4-loop amplitude must be finite due to N=8 supersymmetry, despite the fact that R-5 has a supersymmetric generalization for N=1, N=2 and N=4 SUSY. This means that all 4-loop amplitudes in N=8 supergravity are UV finite. We also discuss the current expectations for higher loops.
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