English

Fortuity in ABJM

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-17 v2

Abstract

We study 1/121/12-BPS and 1/161/16-BPS cohomologies and the fortuitous mechanism in ABJM theory. We first establish the existence of fortuitous states in the N=1N=1 theory, where the theory is abelian and trace relations are extreme. We then provide explicit constructions of fortuitous states at N=2N=2. We find fortuitous states both at weak coupling, in direct parallel to what has been done in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM, but we also find additional fortuitous states at k=2k=2, which is in the strongly coupled regime. The extra fortuitous states that appear at k=2k=2 are in non-trivial monopole sectors. A striking distinction from N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM is that the fortuitous states appear at much smaller quantum numbers, making them easier to find. Along the way, we formulate a non-renormalization conjecture for cohomologies in ABJM.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.04146,
  title  = {Fortuity in ABJM},
  author = {Alexandre Belin and Palash Singh and Rita Vadala and Alberto Zaffaroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.04146},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

40 pages + appendices; typos fixed in v2

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:08:20.516Z