One-loop finiteness of chiral higher spin gravity. (English) Zbl 1451.83071
Summary: One of the main ideas behind Higher Spin Gravities is that the higher spin symmetry is expected to leave no room for counterterms, thereby eliminating UV divergences that make the pure gravity non-renormalizable. However, until recently it has not been clear if such a mechanism is realized. We show that Chiral Higher Spin Gravity is one-loop finite, the crucial point being that all one-loop \(S\)-matrix elements are UV-convergent despite the fact that the theory is naively not renormalizable by power counting. For any number of legs the one-loop \(S\)-matrix elements coincide with all-plus helicity one-loop amplitudes in pure QCD and SDYM, modulo a certain higher spin dressing, which is an unusual relation between the non-gravitational theories and a higher spin gravity.
MSC:
| 83D05 | Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein’s, including asymmetric field theories |
| 83C60 | Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism |
| 81T11 | Higher spin theories |
| 81U20 | \(S\)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory |
| 81T16 | Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory |
| 81V05 | Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics |
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