Cancellations beyond finiteness in N=8 supergravity at three loops.

نویسندگان

  • Z Bern
  • J J Carrasco
  • L J Dixon
  • H Johansson
  • D A Kosower
  • R Roiban
چکیده

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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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 98 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007