Cancellations beyond finiteness in N=8 supergravity at three loops |
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Authors: | Bern Z Carrasco J J Dixon L J Johansson H Kosower D A Roiban R |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA. |
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Abstract: | 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, render its degree of divergence in D dimensions no worse than that of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory--a finite theory in four dimensions. Similar cancellations can be identified at all loop orders in certain unitarity cuts, suggesting that N=8 supergravity may be a perturbatively finite theory of quantum gravity. |
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