Séminaires sur les aspects théoriques et expérimentaux de la gravitation

The Perturbative Ultraviolet Structure of N=4 Supergravity

par Prof. Tristan DENNEN (Niels Bohr International Academy & IHÉS)

Europe/Paris
Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)

Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane

Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques

Bois-Marie 35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
Description
I will present recent calculations of the ultraviolet limit of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 supergravity. These calculations are performed using a squaring relationship between integrands for Yang-Mills amplitudes and for gravity amplitudes. I will discuss in detail the procedure we use to extract ultraviolet divergences from Feynman integrals, and I will present the three- and four-loop ultraviolet divergences in four-graviton scattering. I will also show how the four-loop divergence might be interpreted in terms of the U(1) duality anomaly of the theory.
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