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One-loop N=8 supergravity coefficients from N=4 super Yang-Mills

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We use supersymmetric generalised unitarity to calculate supercoefficients of box functions in the expansion of scattering amplitudes in N=8 supergravity at one loop. Recent advances have presented tree-level amplitudes in N=8 supergravity in terms of sums of terms containing squares of colour-ordered Yang-Mills superamplitudes. We develop the consequences of these results for the structure of one-loop supercoefficients, recasting them as sums of squares of N=4 Yang-Mills expressions with certain coefficients inherited from the tree-level superamplitudes. This provides new expressions for all one-loop box coefficients in N=8 supergravity, which we check against known results in a number of cases.

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@article{arxiv.0906.0521,
  title  = {One-loop N=8 supergravity coefficients from N=4 super Yang-Mills},
  author = {Panagiotis Katsaroumpas and Bill Spence and Gabriele Travaglini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0521},
  year   = {2009}
}

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39 pages, 12 figures

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