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The Effective Action of N=8 Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-11-15 v1

Abstract

We present a simple form of the on-shell gauge-invariant 1-loop effective action of N=8 supergravity which is manifestly N=8 supersymmetric at the linear level. By generalizing the dimensional arguments in superspace to non-local invariants, we show that the 1-loop effective action does not contain any contributions from bubble and triangle diagrams. The absence of bubbles implies the absence of conformal and axial anomalies. We also show that the 1-loop effective action of N=8 supergravity features a "dual" conformal symmetry in the momentum space.

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@article{arxiv.0711.2108,
  title  = {The Effective Action of N=8 Supergravity},
  author = {Renata Kallosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2108},
  year   = {2007}
}

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17 pages

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