Nonrenormalizability of (Last Hope) D=11 Supergravity, with a Terse Survey of Divergences in Quantum Gravities
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چکیده
Before turning to the new result that D=11 supergravity is 2-loop nonrenormalizable, we give a very brief history of the ultraviolet problems of ordinary quantum gravity and of supergravities in general D.
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