I shall therefore not worry about the higher loop divergences, and use eleven-dimensional supergravity, as the local description of the universe.
The broad aim of my research is to look at mathematical aspects of supergravity theories.
Eleven dimensional supergravity contains a three-form gage field, with a four-form field strength.
There are some remarkable results that can be teased out of considering compactifications of extended 11D supergravity on an interval.
In the past this has focussed on the construction of perturbative, semi-realistic models of softly broken N=1 supergravity models in four dimensions.