String theory integrands and supergravity divergences

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Abstract: At low energies, interactions of massless particles in type II strings compactified on a torus Td 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 abla4p+6qmathcalR4 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.



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