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A tale of two exponentiations in ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-18 v2

Abstract

The structure of scattering amplitudes in supergravity theories continues to be of interest. Recently, the amplitude for 222\rightarrow 2 scattering in N=8{\cal N}=8 supergravity was presented at three-loop order for the first time. The result can be written in terms of an exponentiated one-loop contribution, modulo a remainder function which is free of infrared singularities, but contains leading terms in the high energy Regge limit. We explain the origin of these terms from a well-known, unitarity-restoring exponentiation of the high-energy gravitational SS-matrix in impact-parameter space. Furthermore, we predict the existence of similar terms in the remainder function at all higher loop orders. Our results provide a non-trivial cross-check of the recent three-loop calculation, and a necessary consistency constraint for any future calculation at higher loops.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05603,
  title  = {A tale of two exponentiations in ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity},
  author = {Paolo Di Vecchia and Andrés Luna and Stephen G. Naculich and Rodolfo Russo and Gabriele Veneziano and Chris D. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05603},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures. Minor updates