2015/05/21 by Yifan Wang, Xi Yin, Wang, Yifan +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1505.05861
52 pages, 6 figures, reference added, section 3 expanded and section 5 restructured
openalex publication_date 2015/05/21 · arxiv created 2015/05/29 · arxiv updated 2015/06/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We construct higher derivative supervertices in an effective theory of maximal supergravity in various dimensions, in the super spinor helicity formalism, and derive non-renormalization conditions on up to 14-derivative order couplings from supersymmetry. These non-renormalization conditions include Laplace type equations on the coefficients of R4, D4R4, and D6R4 couplings. We also find additional constraining equations, which are consistent with previously known results in the effective action of toroidally compactified type II string theory, and elucidate many features thereof.