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Modified supersymmetric indices in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-29 v3

Abstract

We consider the N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2,2) AdS3_3/CFT2_2 dualities proposed by Eberhardt, where the bulk geometry is AdS3×(S3×T4)/Zk_3\times(S^3\times T^4)/\mathbb{Z}_k, and the CFT is a deformation of the symmetric orbifold of the supersymmetric sigma model T4/ZkT^4/\mathbb{Z}_k (with k=2, 3, 4, 6k=2,\ 3,\ 4,\ 6). The elliptic genera of the two sides vanish due to fermionic zero modes, so for microstate counting applications one must consider modified supersymmetric indices. In an analysis similar to that of Maldacena, Moore, and Strominger for the standard N=(4,4)\mathcal{N}=(4,4) case of T4T^4, we study the appropriate helicity-trace index of the boundary CFTs. We encounter a strange phenomenon where a saddle-point analysis of our indices reproduces only a fraction (respectively 12, 23, 34, 56\frac{1}{2},\ \frac{2}{3},\ \frac{3}{4},\ \frac{5}{6}) of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the associated macroscopic black branes.

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@article{arxiv.2307.15037,
  title  = {Modified supersymmetric indices in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$},
  author = {Arash Arabi Ardehali and Hare Krishna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15037},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v3: matched with JHEP publication

R2 v1 2026-06-28T11:42:07.998Z