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Quiver superconformal index and giant gravitons: asymptotics and expansions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-01 v3 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics math.MP

Abstract

We study asymptotics of the d=4d=4, N=1\mathcal{N}=1 superconformal index for toric quiver gauge theories. Using graph-theoretic and algebraic factorization techniques, we obtain a cycle expansion for the large-NN index in terms of the RR-charge-weighted adjacency matrix. Applying saddle-point techniques at the on-shell RR-charges, we determine the asymptotic degeneracy in the univariate specialization for A^m\hat{A}_{m}, and along the main diagonal for the bivariate index for N=4\mathcal{N}=4 and A^3\hat{A}_{3}. In these cases we find lncnγn12+βlnn+α\ln |c_{n}| \sim \gamma n^{\frac{1}{2}}+ \beta \ln n + \alpha (Hardy-Ramanujan type). We also identify polynomial growth for dP3dP3, Y3,3Y^{3,3} and Yp,0Y^{p,0}, and give numerical evidence for γ\gamma in further Yp,pY^{p,p} examples. Finally, we generalize Murthy's giant graviton expansion via the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation and Borodin-Okounkov formula to multi-matrix models relevant for quivers.

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@article{arxiv.2509.12123,
  title  = {Quiver superconformal index and giant gravitons: asymptotics and expansions},
  author = {Souradeep Purkayastha and Zishen Qu and Ali Zahabi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.12123},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

49 pages, 12 figures, v2 and v3 minor additions and typos corrected