Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA.
Niels Bohr International Academy and Discovery Center, The Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Dec 6;111(23):231302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.231302. Epub 2013 Dec 3.
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.
我们证明了纯 N=4 超引力在四圈中是紫外发散的。这种发散的形式表明它是由于该理论的刚性 U(1)对偶对称性反常引起的。这是已知的第一个在四维度中纯未规度超引力理论中的紫外发散的例子。我们利用颜色和运动学之间的对偶性构建了四圈四点振幅的积分元,然后通过标准的积分技术提取其紫外发散。