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We demonstrate that pure N=4 supergravity is ultraviolet divergent at four loops. The form of the divergence suggests that it is due to the rigid U(1) duality-symmetry anomaly of the theory. This is the first known example of an ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen , Alexander V. Smirnov , 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

${{\cal N}=4}$ supergravity is understood to contain a $U(1)$ anomaly which manifests itself via the nonvanishing of loop-level scattering amplitudes that violate a tree-level charge conservation rule. In this letter we provide detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-13 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban

We compute the anomalous two-loop four-point amplitudes in N=4 pure supergravity, using unitarity and the double-copy construction. We also present all terms determined by four-dimensional cuts in two all-multiplicity two-loop anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Zvi Bern , David Kosower , Julio Parra-Martinez

We present the full two-loop four-graviton amplitudes in N=4,5,6 supergravity. These results were obtained using the double-copy structure of gravity, which follows from the recently conjectured color-kinematics duality in gauge theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Boucher-Veronneau , L. J. Dixon

We evaluate in great detail one-loop four-graviton field theory amplitudes in pure N=4 D=4 supergravity. The expressions are obtained by taking the field theory limits of (4,0) and (2,2) space-time supersymmetric string theory models. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Piotr Tourkine , Pierre Vanhove

We list all potential candidates for U(1) anomalous non-local 1-loop 4-point amplitudes and higher loop UV divergences in $\mathcal{N}\geq 5$ supergravities. The relevant chiral superinvariants are constructed from linearized chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Daniel Z. Freedman , Renata Kallosh , Divyanshu Murli , Antoine Van Proeyen , Yusuke Yamada

The invariants in D=4, N=4 supergravity are discussed up to the three-loop order (where one expects a general R^4 structure). Because there is an anomaly in the rigid SL(2,R) symmetry of this theory, the analysis of possible restrictions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Bossard , P. S. Howe , K. S. Stelle

We describe the construction of the complete four-loop four-particle amplitude of N=8 supergravity. The amplitude is ultraviolet finite, not only in four dimensions, but in five dimensions as well. The observed extra cancellations provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Z. Bern , J. J. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

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

The invariants in half-maximal supergravity theories in D=4,5 are discussed in detail up to dimension eight (e.g. R^4). In D=4, owing to the anomaly in the rigid SL(2,R) duality symmetry, the restrictions on divergences need careful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Bossard , P. S. Howe , K. S. Stelle

We construct the three-loop four-point amplitude of N=8 supergravity using the unitarity method. The amplitude is ultraviolet finite in four dimensions. Novel cancellations, not predicted by traditional superspace power-counting arguments,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , J. J. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban

We present the complete four-loop four-point amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, for a general gauge group and general D-dimensional covariant kinematics, and including all non-planar contributions. We use the method of maximal cuts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-03 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

We construct all supergravity theories that can be obtained through factorized orbifold projections of N=8 supergravity, exposing their double-copy structure, and calculate their one-loop four-point scattering amplitudes. We observe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Radu Roiban

We present a description for amplitude diagrams in maximal supergravities obtained by dimensional reduction from D=11, derived from a field theory point of view using the pure spinor formalism. The advantages of this approach are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Cederwall , Anna Karlsson

A first quantised approach to loop amplitudes based on the pure spinor particle is applied to the systematics of four-particle amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric field theories. Counting of fermionic zero modes allows the identification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Jonas Bjornsson , Michael B. Green

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

We characterise the one-loop amplitudes for N=6 and N=4 supergravity in four dimensions. For N=6 we find that the one-loop n-point amplitudes can be expanded in terms of scalar box and triangle functions only. This simplification is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-22 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We study a self-interacting scalar $\varphi^4$ theory on the $d$-dimensional noncommutative torus. We determine, for the particular cases $d=2$ and $d=4$, the counterterms required by one-loop renormalization. We discuss higher loops in two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 D. D'Ascanio , P. Pisani , D. V. Vassilevich

We use the duality between color and kinematics to simplify the construction of the complete four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including the nonplanar contributions. The duality completely determines the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-17 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban
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