Nonrenormalizability of (Last Hope) D=11 Supergravity, with a Terse Survey of Divergences in Quantum Gravities

Abstract

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.

Invited Lecture at Fundamental Interactions: From Symmetries to Black Holes, Brussels, March 1999