String theory integrands and supergravity divergences
Abstract
At low energies, interactions of massless particles in type II strings compactified on a torus are described by an effective Wilsonian action , consisting of the usual supergravity Lagrangian supplemented by an infinite series of higher-derivative vertices, including the much studied gravitational interactions. Using recent results on the asymptotics of the integrands governing four-graviton scattering at genus one and two, I determine the -dependence of the coefficient of the above interaction, and show that the logarithmic terms appearing in the limit are related to UV divergences in supergravity amplitudes, augmented by stringy interactions. This provides a strong consistency check on the expansion of the integrand near the boundaries of moduli space, in particular it elucidates the appearance of odd zeta values in these expansions. I briefly discuss how these logarithms are reflected in non-analytic terms in the low energy expansion of the string scattering amplitude.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.11343,
title = {String theory integrands and supergravity divergences},
author = {Boris Pioline},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11343},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
40 pages; v2: after fixing a factor of 2 mistake in Eq. (2.41), all divergent terms now agree with SUGRA predictions. Added a note at end of Sec 1 on the definition of the truncated moduli space M_{h,n}(\Lambda)