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$\mathcal{N}=2$ Universality at Strong Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-27 v2

Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of integrated correlators for an N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal field theory on a squashed sphere with SU(N)(N) gauge group and fundamental/anti-symmetric matter. Employing the matrix model arising from supersymmetric localisation, we compute derivatives of the partition function Z\mathcal{Z} with respect to the fundamental mass (μ\mu), the anti-symmetric mass (mm) and the squashing parameter (bb), corresponding to integrated insertions of the N=2\mathcal{N}=2 flavour-current and stress-tensor multiplets, which are holographically dual to gluon and graviton scatterings in the presence of D7-branes. For correlators dual to only graviton scatterings, we confirm the planar-limit equivalence with N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM. Our main result is a remarkable universality for the mixed gluon-graviton scattering amplitudes off D7-branes, obtained from μ2m2logZ\partial_\mu^2 \partial_m^2 \log \mathcal{Z} and μ2b2logZ\partial_\mu^2 \partial_b^2 \log \mathcal{Z}. We show that the leading and sub-leading large-NN contributions in the strong-coupling regime are governed by universal asymptotic series, identical to those found for integrated giant-graviton correlators in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM. We also propose an SL(2,Z)\text{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})-invariant completion of these results in terms of non-holomorphic Eisenstein series. This completion provides exact constraints on higher-derivative terms in the dual AdS5\text{AdS}_5 brane-string amplitudes and highlights an unexpected universality across distinct superconformal theories at strong coupling.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.27594,
  title  = {$\mathcal{N}=2$ Universality at Strong Coupling},
  author = {L. De Lillo and Z. Duan and M. Frau and F. Galvagno and A. Lerda and P. Vallarino and C. Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.27594},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

63 pages, several appendices, Mathematica ancillary file attached; v2: typos fixed, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-07-01T07:15:51.381Z