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N=8 Supergravity 4-point Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-29 v2

Abstract

We present the explicit expressions in N=8 supergravity for the bosonic 4-particle tree and 1-loop amplitudes including vectors and scalars. We also present the candidate 4-point UV divergences in a form of helicity amplitudes, corresponding to 3-loop manifestly N=8 supersymmetric and Lorentz covariant counterterm. This may shed some light on the 3-loop finiteness of N=8 SG and on a conjectured higher loop finiteness. We perform a supersymmetric deformation to complex momentum of the 4-point generating function including higher-loop counterterms and the 1-loop UV finite amplitudes. Using the explicit form of the scalar part of the 3-loop counterterm and of the 1-loop UV finite scalar 4-point amplitudes we find that they both have an unbroken E7 symmetry. We derive from E7 symmetry the low-energy theorem for the 1-loop n-point amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.0811.3417,
  title  = {N=8 Supergravity 4-point Amplitudes},
  author = {Renata Kallosh and Ching Hua Lee and Tomas Rube},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3417},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 p, 4 figures

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