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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 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

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

Null Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills are dual to planar scattering amplitudes. This duality implies hidden symmetries for both objects. We consider closely related infrared finite observables, defined as the Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-14 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes M. Henn

We suggest that the surprising one-loop finiteness of 6D half-maximal supergravities recently discovered in \cite{Huang:2025nyr} might be related to anomaly-free $SO(5, 21)$ G-duality symmetry in $(2,0)$ supergravity with 21 tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Renata Kallosh

From general arguments, we show that one-loop n-point amplitudes in colourless theories satisfy a new type of reduction formula. These lead to the existence of cancellations beyond supersymmetry. Using such reduction relations we prove the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

Using the duality between color and kinematics, we construct two-loop four-point scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory coupled to $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets. Our results are valid in $D\le 6$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Henrik Johansson , Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull

We study correlators of null, $n$-sided polygonal Wilson loops with a Lagrangian insertion in the planar limit of the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This finite observable is closely related to loop integrands of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Taro V. Brown , Johannes M. Henn , Elia Mazzucchelli , Jaroslav Trnka

Maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories have several remarkable properties, among which are the cancellation of UV divergences, factorization of higher loop corrections and possible integrability. Much attention has been attracted to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , D. E. Vlasenko

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

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

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

Finite Feynman integrals have been advocated as the optimal components for constructing a basis of master integrals in multiloop calculations, due to their improved analytic and numerical properties. In this paper, we show how the Loop-Tree…

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

Non-invertible symmetries have been extensively studied in quantum field theories in recent years. In this note we initiate their study in supergravity. We find infinite families of non-invertible defects in 11d and 10d Type II…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Eduardo García-Valdecasas

We describe a systematic approach to the construction of loop-integrand bases at arbitrary loop-order, sufficient for the representation of general quantum field theories. We provide a graph-theoretic definition of `power-counting' for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Jaroslav Trnka

In this chapter, we present a scattering-amplitudes perspective on supergravity, and describe its application to the study of ultraviolet properties of supergravity theories at high loop orders. The basic on-shell tools that make such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-18 Zvi Bern , John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

In this lecture we summarize recent calculations pointing to the possible ultraviolet finiteness of N = 8 supergravity in four dimensions. We outline the modern unitarity method, which enables multiloop calculations in this theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-02 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson

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

The duality between color and kinematics enables the construction of multiloop gravity integrands directly from corresponding gauge-theory integrands. This has led to new nontrivial insights into the structure of gravity theories, including…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Josh Nohle