String theory from supergravity and supergravity from string theory

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:08050039,
            doi = {10.48660/08050039},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/08050039},
            author = {Russo, Jorge},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {String theory from supergravity and supergravity from string theory},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2008},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:08050039 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

The rich network of string dualities provides powerful constraints in the structure of the theory. The connection of ten-dimensional type II theories to eleven-dimensional supergravity compactified on a circle and on a torus allows one to compute many perturbative high genus terms as well as the complete sum of non-perturbative contributions to a given higher derivative coupling of the string effective action. The same duality connection leads to a series of surprising non-renormalization theorems. These control the UV behavior of maximal supergravity in lower dimensions, and indicate that N=8 supergravity in four dimensions might be a finite quantum gravity theory.