Sub-leading structures in superconformal indices: subdominant saddles and logarithmic contributions

Autor: Alfredo González Lezcano, Junho Hong, James T. Liu, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 1, Pp 1-56 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2021)001
Popis: Abstract We systematically study various sub-leading structures in the superconformal index of N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with SU(N) gauge group. We concentrate in the superconformal index description as a matrix model of elliptic gamma functions and in the Bethe-Ansatz presentation. Our saddle-point approximation goes beyond the Cardy-like limit and we uncover various saddles governed by a matrix model corresponding to SU(N) Chern-Simons theory. The dominant saddle, however, leads to perfect agreement with the Bethe-Ansatz approach. We also determine the logarithmic correction to the superconformal index to be log N, finding precise agreement between the saddle-point and Bethe-Ansatz approaches in their respective approximations. We generalize the two approaches to cover a large class of 4d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 superconformal theories. We find that also in this case both approximations agree all the way down to a universal contribution of the form log N. The universality of this last result constitutes a robust signature of this ultraviolet description of asymptotically AdS5 black holes and could be tested by low-energy IIB supergravity.
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