Published November 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

N=8 supergravity on the light cone

  • 1. Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (United States)

Description

We construct the generating functional for the light-cone superfield amplitudes in a chiral momentum superspace. It generates the n-point particle amplitudes which on shell are equivalent to the covariant ones. Based on the action depending on the unconstrained light-cone chiral scalar superfield, this functional provides a regular d=4 quantum field theory path integral derivation of the Nair-type amplitude constructions. By performing a Fourier transform into the light-cone chiral coordinate superspace we find that the quantum corrections to the superfield amplitudes with n legs are nonlocal in transverse directions for the diagrams with the number of loops smaller than at least n+3. This suggests the reason why UV infinities, which are proportional to local vertices, cannot appear at least before 7 loops in the light-cone supergraph computations. Using the E7(7) symmetry we argue that the light-cone supergraphs predict all-loop finiteness of d=4 N=8 supergravity.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 105022-105022.20
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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