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We study the interplay between graviton reggeization and double-logarithmic in energy contributions to four-graviton scattering in theories with and without supersymmetry. Predictions to all orders in the gravitational coupling are given for these double-logarithms. As the number of supersymmetries grows these terms generate a convergent behaviour for the amplitudes at very high energies. At two-loop level, we find agreement with previous exact results for \( \mathcal{N} \) = 8 supergravity and with those of Boucher-Veronneau and Dixon, who studied the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4, 5, 6 supergravities using a conjectured double-copy structure of gravity.
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Bartels, J., Lipatov, L.N. & Vera, A.S. Double-logarithms in Einstein-Hilbert gravity and supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 56 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2014)056
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