N=8 supergravity on the light cone
Creators
- 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.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.105022;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0903.4630v2;
Publishing Information
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41056712
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMPLITUDES; CALCULATION METHODS; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CHIRALITY; CONSTRUCTION; CORRECTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LIGHT CONE; PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SUPERGRAVITY; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
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- Notes
- (c) 2009 The American Physical Society