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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24837 |
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- We present the first successful large-$N$ computation of the $S^3$ free energy in chiral $\mathcal{N}=2$ Chern-Simons-matter theories, long believed to evade the universal M2-brane scaling $F_{S^3}\!\sim\!N^{3/2}$. Using a stable numerical continuation method that directly solves the saddle-point equations, we obtain convergent large-$N$ solutions for benchmark chiral quivers, including the holographic dual to AdS$_4\times Q^{1,1,1}/\mathbb{Z}_k$ and $D_3$ models. The resulting free energies precisely match the holographic predictions, resolving a decade-old puzzle in AdS$_4$/CFT$_3$ and establishing a practical numerical framework for precision holography in strongly coupled gauge theories.