String theory integrands and supergravity divergences

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2019)148zbMATH Open1411.83136arXiv1810.11343OpenAlexW3105784974WikidataQ128385069 ScholiaQ128385069MaRDI QIDQ1735640FDOQ1735640

Authors: Boris Pioline 

Publication date: 28 March 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: At low energies, interactions of massless particles in type II strings compactified on a torus $T^d$ are described by an effective Wilsonian action $mathcalS(Lambda)$, consisting of the usual supergravity Lagrangian supplemented by an infinite series of higher-derivative vertices, including the much studied $abl{a}^{4p+6q}mathcal{R}^4$ gravitational interactions. Using recent results on the asymptotics of the integrands governing four-graviton scattering at genus one and two, I determine the $Lambda$-dependence of the coefficient of the above interaction, and show that the logarithmic terms appearing in the limit $Lambdao0$ are related to UV divergences in supergravity amplitudes, augmented by stringy interactions. This provides a strong consistency check on the expansion of the integrand near the boundaries of moduli space, in particular it elucidates the appearance of odd zeta values in these expansions. I briefly discuss how these logarithms are reflected in non-analytic terms in the low energy expansion of the string scattering amplitude.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11343

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zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetryscattering amplitudesstring duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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