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1/16 BPS States in N=4 SYM

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-27 v2

Abstract

We investigate the problem of counting 1/16 BPS operators in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling. We present the complete set of 1/16 BPS operators in the infinite N limit, which agrees with the counting of free BPS multi-graviton states in the gravity dual AdS5xS5. Further, we conjecture that all 1/16 BPS operators in N=4 SYM are of the multi-graviton form, and give numerical evidences for this conjecture. We discuss the implication of our conjecture and the seeming failure in reproducing the entropy of large 1/16 BPS black holes in AdS5.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6314,
  title  = {1/16 BPS States in N=4 SYM},
  author = {Chi-Ming Chang and Xi Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6314},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

14 pages;a new section added

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