Ultraviolet divergences in higher dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories
Abstract
We determine the loop orders for the onset of allowed ultra-violet divergences in higher dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. Cancellations are controlled by the non-renormalization theorems for the linearly realizable supersymmetries and by the requirement that counterterms display the full non-linear supersymmetries when the classical equations of motion are imposed. The first allowed divergences in the maximal super Yang-Mills theories occur at four loops in five dimensions, three loops in six dimensions and two loops in seven dimensions.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- March 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90225-9
- Bibcode:
- 1984PhLB..137..175H