2012/06/12 by Leonardo Modesto, Modesto, Leonardo · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1206.2648
6 pages
arxiv created 2012/06/12 · openalex publication_date 2012/06/12 · arxiv updated 2012/06/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper we study an N=1 supersymmetric extension of a perturbatively super-renormalizable (nonlocal)theory of gravity in four dimensions. The nonlocal supergravity theory is power-counting super-renormalizable and tree level unitary with the same particle content of the local N=1 supergravity (as simple example, unitarity of the three dimensional N=1 and N=2 supergravity is proved). We believe that extended SO(N) supergravity, for N=4 or N=8, might be free from divergences also at one loop. The extended supergravities would then result finite at any order in the loop expansion.