Bern Z, Carrasco J J, Dixon L J, Johansson H, Kosower D A, Roiban R
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Apr 20;98(16):161303. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.161303. Epub 2007 Apr 19.
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.
我们使用幺正性方法构建了N = 8超引力的三圈四点振幅。该振幅在四维中是紫外有限的。传统超空间幂次计数论证未预测到的新型抵消,使其在D维中的发散度不比N = 4超杨-米尔斯理论更差——N = 4超杨-米尔斯理论在四维中是有限理论。在某些幺正性切割的所有圈阶中都能识别出类似的抵消,这表明N = 8超引力可能是量子引力的微扰有限理论。