Fortuity in ABJM
Abstract
We study -BPS and -BPS cohomologies and the fortuitous mechanism in ABJM theory. We first establish the existence of fortuitous states in the theory, where the theory is abelian and trace relations are extreme. We then provide explicit constructions of fortuitous states at . We find fortuitous states both at weak coupling, in direct parallel to what has been done in SYM, but we also find additional fortuitous states at , which is in the strongly coupled regime. The extra fortuitous states that appear at are in non-trivial monopole sectors. A striking distinction from 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