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Ultraviolet properties of N=4 supergravity at four loops
Zvi Bern1, Scott Davies1, Tristan Dennen2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA.
Abstract:
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 divergence in a pure ungauged supergravity theory in four dimensions. We use the duality between color and kinematics to construct the integrand of the four-loop four-point amplitude, whose ultraviolet divergence is then extracted by standard integration techniques.
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