The SCI of $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 USp(2Nc) and SO(Nc) SYM as a matrix integral

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We study the Cardy-like limit of the superconformal index of generic $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 SCFTs with ABCD gauge algebra, providing strong evidence for a universal formula that captures the behavior of the index at finite order in the rank and in the fugacities associated to angular momenta. The formula extends previous results valid at lowest order, and generalizes them to generic SCFTs. We corroborate the validity of our proposal by studying several examples, beyond the well-understood toric class. We compute the index also for models without a weakly-coupled gravity dual, whose gravitational anomaly is not of order one.

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Expanding on the Cardy-like limit of the SCI of 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 ABCD SCFTs

Amariti

Fazzi

Segati

2021

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“…More recently, the complete action (1.5) for (m, n) = (1, 0) was obtained in [41] by a direct method, involving a careful analysis of all perturbative terms in the Cardy-like limit. (See [42,43] for more recent related work. )…”

Section: Jhep10(2021)207mentioning

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The 4d superconformal index near roots of unity and 3d Chern-Simons theory

Ardehali

Murthy

2021

We consider the S3×S1 superconformal index ℐ(τ) of 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 gauge theories. The Hamiltonian index is defined in a standard manner as the Witten index with a chemical potential τ coupled to a combination of angular momenta on S3 and the U(1) R-charge. We develop the all-order asymptotic expansion of the index as q = e2πiτ approaches a root of unity, i.e. as $$ \overset{\sim }{\tau } $$ τ ~ ≡ mτ+n → 0, with m, n relatively prime integers. The asymptotic expansion of log ℐ(τ) has terms of the form $$ \overset{\sim }{\tau } $$ τ ~ k, k = −2, −1, 0, 1. We determine the coefficients of the k = −2, −1, 1 terms from the gauge theory data, and provide evidence that the k = 0 term is determined by the Chern-Simons partition function on S3/ℤm. We explain these findings from the point of view of the 3d theory obtained by reducing the 4d gauge theory on the S1. The supersymmetric functional integral of the 3d theory takes the form of a matrix integral over the dynamical 3d fields, with an effective action given by supersymmetrized Chern-Simons couplings of background and dynamical gauge fields. The singular terms in the $$ \overset{\sim }{\tau } $$ τ ~ → 0 expansion (dictating the growth of the 4d index) are governed by the background Chern-Simons couplings. The constant term has a background piece as well as a piece given by the localized functional integral over the dynamical 3d gauge multiplet. The linear term arises from the supersymmetric Casimir energy factor needed to go between the functional integral and the Hamiltonian index.

Decomposition of BPS moduli spaces and asymptotics of supersymmetric partition functions

Ardehali

Hong

2022

We present a prototype for Wilsonian analysis of asymptotics of supersymmetric partition functions of non-abelian gauge theories. Localization allows expressing such partition functions as an integral over a BPS moduli space. When the limit of interest introduces a scale hierarchy in the problem, asymptotics of the partition function is obtained in the Wilsonian approach by i) decomposing (in some suitable scheme) the BPS moduli space into various patches according to the set of light fields (lighter than the scheme dependent cut-off Λ) they support, ii) localizing the partition function of the effective field theory on each patch (with cut-offs set by the scheme), and iii) summing up the contributions of all patches to obtain the final asymptotic result (which is scheme-independent and accurate as Λ → ∞). Our prototype concerns the Cardy-like asymptotics of the 4d superconformal index, which has been of interest recently for its application to black hole microstate counting in AdS5/CFT4. As a byproduct of our analysis we obtain the most general asymptotic expression for the index of gauge theories in the Cardy-like limit, encompassing and extending all previous results.