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Fortuity and relevant deformation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-16 v1

Abstract

We investigate the supercharge cohomology of an N=1\mathcal{N}=1 relevant deformation of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills. By introducing a field redefinition, we integrate out massive fields in a cohomological sense. Then, we construct the monotone cohomologies corresponding to the Kaluza-Klein particles of the dual supergravity solution. Some of the monotone cohomologies obey stringy exclusion principle analogous to that of AdS3AdS_3. Relatedly, they vanish on the diagonal field configurations, unlike N=4\mathcal{N}=4 monotone cohomologies. We also construct infinitely many fortuitous cohomologies for gauge group SU(2). We find that unlike N=4\mathcal{N}=4 fortuitous cohomologies, they can either be non-vanishing or vanishing on the diagonal fields. By undoing the field redefinition and taking a suitable UV limit, we show that non-vanishing ones reduce to monotone cohomologies of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM, while vanishing ones reduce to fortuitous cohomologies of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM. This implies that the fortuity can arise due to the relevant deformation, while monotonicity is not.

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@article{arxiv.2512.12674,
  title  = {Fortuity and relevant deformation},
  author = {Jaehyeok Choi and Seunggyu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12674},
  year   = {2025}
}

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44 pages

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