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Finite-$N$ BMN index across all vacuum sectors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-26 v1

Abstract

We compute the finite-NN 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 N9N\leq 9. In the equal-fugacity expansion, the coefficients near charges jN2j\sim N^2 show entropy growth of order N2N^2, and the sector sum does not cancel this growth. The finite-NN data also reveal a nontrivial sectoral organization: near j=N2j=N^2, the sector giving the largest contribution changes with NN, from single-partition sectors at small rank to double-partition sectors starting at N=5N=5. We call this phenomenon dominance switching. These results provide a quantitative finite-NN 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 AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5.

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

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