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We compute the symbol of the two-loop five-point amplitude in $\mathcal N=8$ supergravity. We write an ansatz for the amplitude whose rational prefactors are based on not only 4-dimensional leading singularities, but also $d$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Samuel Abreu , Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

In this contribution we describe computational tools that permit the evaluation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, in terms of amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss the remarkable ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Lance Dixon , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

Conventional wisdom holds that no four-dimensional gravity field theory can be ultraviolet finite. This understanding is based mainly on power counting. Recent studies confirm that one-loop N = 8 supergravity amplitudes satisfy the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Radu Roiban

To explore color/kinematics duality for general representations of the gauge group we formulate the duality for general abelian orbifolds of the SU(N), N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions, which have fields in the bi-fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Marco Chiodaroli , Qingjun Jin , Radu Roiban

We compute the leading-color (planar) three-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions, as a Laurent expansion about epsilon = 0 including the finite terms. The amplitude was constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We examine the ultraviolet behaviour of supergravity theories as a function of dimension and number of supercharges. We do so by the computation of one and two-loop physical on-shell four point amplitudes. For maximal supergravity, our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Bern , D. Dunbar , L. Dixon , B. Julia , M. Perelstien , J. Rozowsky , D. Seminara , M. Trigante

Concrete calculations have pointed out that amplitudes in perturbative gravity exhibit unanticipated cancellations taming their ultraviolet behaviour independently of supersymmetry. Similar ultraviolet behaviour of N=4 super-Yang-Mills and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

The ultraviolet divergences of amplitude diagrams in maximal supergravity are investigated using the pure spinor superfield formalism in maximal supergravity, with maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory for reference. We comment on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-18 Anna Karlsson

In these lectures I describe the remarkable ultraviolet behavior of N=8 supergravity, which through four loops is no worse than that of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory (a finite theory). I also explain the computational tools that allow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Lance J. Dixon

We show that the double-copy structure of gravity forbids divergences in pure half-maximal (16 supercharge) supergravity at four and five points at one loop in D<8 and at two loops in D<6. We link the cancellations that render these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang

Using the duality between color and kinematics, we construct the two- and three-loop amplitudes of half-maximal supergravity with matter multiplets and show that new divergences occur in D=4 and D=5. Bossard, Howe and Stelle have recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-11 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen

We use the recently developed generalized double-copy construction to obtain an improved representation of the five-loop four-point integrand of $N = 8$ supergravity whose leading ultraviolet behavior we analyze using state of the art…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Wei-Ming Chen , Alex Edison , Henrik Johansson , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Mao Zeng

We show that the four-loop four-point amplitudes of N = 5 supergravity are ultraviolet finite in four dimensions, contrary to expectations based on supersymmetry and duality-symmetry arguments. We explain why the diagrams of any covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-19 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen

A non-trivial consequence of the super-correlator/super-amplitude duality is that the integrand of the four-point correlation function of stress-tensor multiplets in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills contains a certain combination of n-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

Prompted by recent progress in the study of N=4 super Yang-Mills amplitudes, and evidence that similar approaches might be relevant to N=8 supergravity, we investigate possible iterative structures and applications of Wilson loop techniques…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Adele Nasti , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

A previously proposed all-loop-orders relation between the Regge limits of four-point amplitudes of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity is established at the three-loop level. We show that the Regge limit of known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-08 Stephen G. Naculich , Theodore W. Wecker

The superconformal Ward identities combined with N=2 harmonic analyticity are used to evaluate two-loop four-point correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in D=4, N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of the well-known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Eden , P. S. Howe , C. Schubert , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

The planar scattering amplitudes of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang--Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as having only logarithmic singularities and no poles at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

We present an expression for the leading-color (planar) four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4-2 e dimensions, in terms of eight separate integrals. The expression is based on consistency of unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Czakon , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower , Vladimir A. Smirnov

The dual formulation of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes makes manifest that the integrand has only logarithmic singularities and no poles at infinity. Recently, Arkani-Hamed, Bourjaily, Cachazo and Trnka conjectured the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka