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arxiv: 1810.11343 · v2 · pith:U6OMTWNMnew · submitted 2018-10-26 · ✦ hep-th

String theory integrands and supergravity divergences

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords interactionslambdasupergravitydivergencesexpansionintegrandsmathcalscattering
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At low energies, interactions of massless particles in type II strings compactified on a torus $T^d$ are described by an effective Wilsonian action $\mathcal{S}(\Lambda)$, consisting of the usual supergravity Lagrangian supplemented by an infinite series of higher-derivative vertices, including the much studied $\nabla^{4p+6q} \mathcal{R}^4$ 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 $\Lambda\to 0$ 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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