Canceling the U(1) Anomaly in the S Matrix of N=4 Supergravity

Bern, Zvi; Parra-Martinez, Julio; Roiban, Radu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.101604

Title: Canceling the $U (1)$ Anomaly in the $S$ Matrix of $N = 4$ Supergravity

Journal Article · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.101604· OSTI ID:1469040

Bern, Zvi; Parra-Martinez, Julio; Roiban, Radu

N = 4 supergravity is understood to contain a U (1) anomaly which manifests itself via the nonvanishing of loop-level scattering amplitudes that violate a tree-level charge conservation rule. In this Letter we provide detailed evidence that at one loop such anomalous amplitudes can be set to zero by the addition of a finite local counterterm. We show that the same counterterm also cancels evanescent contributions that play an important role in the analysis of ultraviolet divergences in dimensionally regularized gravity. These cancellations call for a reanalysis of the four-loop ultraviolet divergences previously found in this theory without the addition of such counterterms.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

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OSTI ID:: 1469040

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Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Vol. 121 Journal Issue: 10; ISSN 0031-9007

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