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Non-renormalization theorems in maximal supergravity
Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Problems of modern theoretical and mathematical physics: Gauge theories and superstrings, Tome 272 (2011), pp. 256-265.

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The control over nonabelian gauge invariances at the quantum level, which Andrei Alekseevich Slavnov brilliantly pioneered, plays a critical role in the study of the ultraviolet problem both in gauge theories and in theories of gravity. The recent dramatic cancellations of divergent contributions to certain BPS counterterm structures in maximal supergravity require a careful revisit of the applicable nonrenormalization theorems, based on local gauge invariances and on duality symmetries. In the end, these suffice to explain all the BPS counterterm cancellations found to date in maximal supergravity, both in four and in higher spacetime dimensions. 
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K. S. Stelle. Non-renormalization theorems in maximal supergravity. Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Problems of modern theoretical and mathematical physics: Gauge theories and superstrings, Tome 272 (2011), pp. 256-265. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TM_2011_272_a22/

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