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Exact large $N$ expansion of mass deformed ABJM theory on squashed sphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-02-21 v3

Abstract

In this paper we study the partition function of the mass deformed ABJM theory on a squashed three sphere. In particular, we focus on the case with the Chern-Simons levels being ±1\pm 1 and apply a duality between this theory and the N=4\mathcal{N}=4 U(N)\mathrm{U}\left(N\right) super Yang-Mills theory with an adjoint hypermultiplet and a fundamental hypermultiplet. For a special mass parameter depending on the squashing parameter, we find that the partition function can be written as that of an ideal Fermi gas with a non-trivial density matrix. By studying this density matrix, we analytically derive the all order perturbative expansion of the partition function in 1/N1/N, which turns out to take the form of the Airy function. Our results not only align with previous findings and conjectures but also lead to a new formula for the overall constant factor of the partition function. We also study the exact values of the partition function for small but finite values of NN.

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@article{arxiv.2411.07334,
  title  = {Exact large $N$ expansion of mass deformed ABJM theory on squashed sphere},
  author = {Naotaka Kubo and Tomoki Nosaka and Yi Pang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.07334},
  year   = {2025}
}

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36 pages, 4 figures