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Tree amplitudes and two-loop counterterms in D=11 supergravity

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: We compute the tree level 4-particle bosonic scattering amplitudes in $D=11$ supergravity. By construction, they are part of a linearized supersymmetry, coordinate, and 3-form gauge invariant. While this on-shell invariant is nonlocal, suitable SUSY-preserving differentiations turn it into a local one with correct dimension to provide a natural lowest (two-loop) order counterterm candidate. Its existence shows explicitly that no symmetries protect this ultimate supergravity: Indeed this invariant, together with the recently calculated infinite coefficient of its 4-graviton part, constitutes a demonstration of two-loop non-renormalizability.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.62.084010

Authors: S. Deser, D. Seminara

Institutions: Brandeis University, École Normale Supérieure - PSL

Language: Latvian

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Research in Gravitation and Quantum Field Theory