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We consider the tetrahedral three-loop diagram in Ed exceptional field theory evaluated as a scalar diagram for four external gravitons. At lowest order in momenta, this diagram contributes to the ∇6R4 term in the low-energy effective action for M-theory. We evaluate explicitly the sums over the discrete exceptional field theory loop momenta that become sums over 1/2-BPS states in the compact exceptional space. These sums can be rewritten as Eisenstein series that solve the homogeneous differential equations that supersymmetry implies for the ∇6R4 coupling. We also show how our results, even though sums over 1/2-BPS states, are consistent with expected 1/4-BPS contributions to the couplings.
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Bossard, G., Kleinschmidt, A. Cancellation of divergences up to three loops in exceptional field theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 100 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)100
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