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Schur indices for $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills with more general gauge groups

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-16 v1

Abstract

We study the unflavored Schur indices in the N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills theory for the Bn,Cn,Dn,G2B_n,C_n,D_n, G_2 gauge groups. We explore two methods, namely the character expansion method and the Fermi gas method, to efficiently compute the qq-series expansion of the Schur indices to some high orders. Using the available data and the modular properties, we are able to fix the exact formulas for the general gauge groups up to some high ranks and discover some interesting new features. We also identify some empirical modular anomaly equations, but unlike the case of AnA_n groups, they are quite complicated and not sufficiently useful to fix exact formulas for gauge groups of arbitrary rank.

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@article{arxiv.2311.08714,
  title  = {Schur indices for $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills with more general gauge groups},
  author = {Bao-ning Du and Min-xin Huang and Xin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08714},
  year   = {2023}
}

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30 pages