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Quantum black hole cohomologies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-06-26 v1

Abstract

Microstates of BPS AdS black holes have been studied from the classical cohomologies of the maximal super-Yang-Mills theories, but their quantum natures have been conjectural. It was recently found that a classical black hole (fortuitous) cohomology in the SO(7)SO(7) theory is lifted by 1-loop corrections. We show that such lifts also happen in the SU(2)SU(2) theory, presenting both lifted/unlifted examples. In particular, the lightest fortuitous cohomology and its `hairy' versions are unlifted, while many heavier `core' fortuitous ones are lifted. We argue that the entropy of classical cohomologies in the Cardy limit is larger than the indicial entropy of strictly protected states by at least 1.2%\approx 1.2 \%.

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@article{arxiv.2606.27955,
  title  = {Quantum black hole cohomologies},
  author = {Seok Kim and Seongmin Kim and Siyul Lee and Jiyoo Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.27955},
  year   = {2026}
}

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