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We study counterterms (CT’s), candidates for UV divergences in the four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} = 8 \) supergravity. They have been constructed long ago in the Lorentz covariant on shell superspace and recently in the chiral light-cone (LC) superspace. We prove that all of these CT’s are ruled out since they are not available in the real LC super-space. This implies the perturbative UV finiteness of d =4 \( \mathcal{N} = 8 \) supergravity under the assumption that supersymmetry and continuous E 7(7) symmetry are anomaly-free. The proof, based on the chiral nature of CT’s in the LC superspace, is a generalization of the perturbative F-term non-renormalization theorem for \( \mathcal{N} = 8 \) supergravity.
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Kallosh, R. The ultraviolet finiteness \( \mathcal{N} = 8 \) supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 9 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2010)009
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