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Some Non-Renormalization Theorems for Higher Derivative Operators

Michael Dine

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9610246

Abstract

It has been argued that a certain large N matrix model may provide a non-perturbative definition of M-theory. This model is the truncation to 0+1 dimensions of ten-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. It is crucial to this identification that terms with four derivatives in the effective action for the quantum mechanics should not be renormalized. We offer a perturbative proof of this result.

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