Finite-$N$ BMN index across all vacuum sectors
Abstract
We compute the finite- Witten index of BMN matrix quantum mechanics after summing over all partition-labeled supersymmetric vacuum sectors. Starting from the unitary-matrix integral for each sector, we develop two complementary evaluation methods: a symmetric-group character expansion, which reduces each fixed fugacity order to a finite combinatorial sum, and a residue expansion in which the contributing poles are organized by rooted trees, with a colored-tree generalization for multi-partition sectors. Direct integration and constant-term extraction provide independent checks in explicit examples. We evaluate every vacuum sector for . In the equal-fugacity expansion, the coefficients near charges show entropy growth of order , and the sector sum does not cancel this growth. The finite- data also reveal a nontrivial sectoral organization: near , the sector giving the largest contribution changes with , from single-partition sectors at small rank to double-partition sectors starting at . We call this phenomenon dominance switching. These results provide a quantitative finite- foundation for using the BMN index as a diagnostic of protected plane-wave black-hole microstates and suggest a bulk interpretation in terms of plane-wave black holes dressed by macroscopic M2 giant gravitons, analogous to dual dressed black holes in .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.25560,
title = {Finite-$N$ BMN index across all vacuum sectors},
author = {Chi-Ming Chang and Sarthak Duary and Kangning Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25560},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
117 pages, 5 figures