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We argue that recent results in string perturbation theory indicate that the four-graviton amplitude of four-dimensional N=8 supergravity might be ultraviolet finite up to eight loops. We similarly argue that the h-loop M-graviton amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael B. Green , Jorge G. Russo , Pierre Vanhove

We use the recently developed generalized double-copy procedure to construct an integrand for the five-loop four-point amplitude of N=8 supergravity. This construction starts from a naive double copy of the previously computed corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph M. Carrasco , Wei-Ming Chen , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban , Mao Zeng

In four dimensions, it has long been established that gravity coupled to matter exhibits ultraviolet divergences at one loop, irrespective of supersymmetry. Notably, the four-matter one-loop amplitudes of half-maximal supergravity coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Yu-tin Huang , Henrik Johansson , Michele Santagata , Congkao Wen

Superspace power-counting rules give estimates for the loop order at which divergences can first appear in non-renormalisable supersymmetric field theories. In some cases these estimates can be improved if harmonic superspace, rather than…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 P. S. Howe , K. S. Stelle

We study the perturbative expansion of N=8 supergravity in four dimensions from the viewpoint of the ``no-triangle'' hypothesis, which states that one-loop graviton amplitudes in N=8 supergravity only contain scalar box integral functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita , Warren B. Perkins , Kasper Risager

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

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 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

According to the recent pure spinor analysis of the UV divergences by Karlsson, there are no divergent 1PI structures beyond 6 loops in D=4 N=8 supergravity. In combination with the common expectation that the UV divergences do not appear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Renata Kallosh

We derive a linear relation between the one-loop five-point amplitude of N=8 supergravity and the one-loop five-point subleading-color amplitudes of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Stephen G. Naculich , Howard J. Schnitzer

We expose simple and practical relations between the integrated four- and five-point one-loop amplitudes of N >= 4 supergravity and the corresponding (super-)Yang-Mills amplitudes. The link between the amplitudes is simply understood using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Z. Bern , C. Boucher-Veronneau , H. Johansson

We present the explicit expressions in N=8 supergravity for the bosonic 4-particle tree and 1-loop amplitudes including vectors and scalars. We also present the candidate 4-point UV divergences in a form of helicity amplitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Renata Kallosh , Ching Hua Lee , Tomas Rube

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 analyse one-loop graviton amplitudes in the field theory limit of a genus-one string theory computation. The considered amplitudes can be dimensionally reduced to lower dimensions preserving maximal supersymmetry. The particular case of…

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

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

In a previous paper we observed that (classical) tree-level gauge theory amplitudes can be rearranged to display a duality between color and kinematics. Once this is imposed, gravity amplitudes are obtained using two copies of gauge-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Zvi Bern , John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson

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

The ultraviolet divergences of amplitude diagrams in maximal supergravity are characterised by a first possible divergence at seven loops for the 4-point amplitude (logarithmic) and, in its absence, at eight loops. We revisit the pure…

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

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

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