Macdonald Identities and Exact Formulas for Superconformal Indices in Super Yang-Mills Theories

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contents We present exact evaluations of superconformal indices for 4d N =1 and N =2 pure Super Yang-Mills theories with arbitrary simple gauge group G. Our approach applies the Macdonald identities for untwisted affine Lie algebras to the integral formulas of the indices, yielding uniform closed formulas valid for all G, expressed both as q-series and as eta-quotients, related through specialized Macdonald identities. Using similar techniques, we also derive exact expressions for half Schur indices with Neumann boundary conditions and uncover a bilinear structure of the full Schur index. Within the framework of holomorphic-topological twists, we further explore connections to the category of line operators, the K-theoretical Coulomb branch, Schur quantization, IR formulas for the BPS spectrum, and class S constructions.
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spellingShingle Macdonald Identities and Exact Formulas for Superconformal Indices in Super Yang-Mills Theories
Lü, Yongchao
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
We present exact evaluations of superconformal indices for 4d N =1 and N =2 pure Super Yang-Mills theories with arbitrary simple gauge group G. Our approach applies the Macdonald identities for untwisted affine Lie algebras to the integral formulas of the indices, yielding uniform closed formulas valid for all G, expressed both as q-series and as eta-quotients, related through specialized Macdonald identities. Using similar techniques, we also derive exact expressions for half Schur indices with Neumann boundary conditions and uncover a bilinear structure of the full Schur index. Within the framework of holomorphic-topological twists, we further explore connections to the category of line operators, the K-theoretical Coulomb branch, Schur quantization, IR formulas for the BPS spectrum, and class S constructions.
title Macdonald Identities and Exact Formulas for Superconformal Indices in Super Yang-Mills Theories
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08468