Manifesting enhanced cancellations in supergravity: integrands versus integrals

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DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)137zbMATH Open1380.83275arXiv1703.08927OpenAlexW2599903504MaRDI QIDQ683044FDOQ683044

Mao Zeng, Zvi Bern, Julio Parra-Martinez, Michael Enciso

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: Examples of "enhanced ultraviolet cancellations" with no known standard-symmetry explanation have been found in a variety of supergravity theories. By examining one- and two-loop examples in four- and five-dimensional half-maximal supergravity, we argue that enhanced cancellations in general cannot be exhibited prior to integration. In light of this, we explore reorganizations of integrands into parts that are manifestly finite and parts that have poor power counting but integrate to zero due to integral identities. At two loops we find that in the large loop-momentum limit the required integral identities follow from Lorentz and SL(2) relabeling symmetry. We carry out a nontrivial check at four loops showing that the identities generated in this way are a complete set. We propose that at L loops the combination of Lorentz and SL(L) symmetry is sufficient for displaying enhanced cancellations when they happen, whenever the theory is known to be ultraviolet finite up to (L1) loops.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08927





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