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A 4d N=1 Cardy Formula (1904.03455v2)
Published 6 Apr 2019 in hep-th
Abstract: We study the asymptotic behavior of the (modified) superconformal index for 4d $\mathcal{N} = 1$ gauge theory. By considering complexified chemical potential, we find that the `high-temperature limit' of the index can be written in terms of the conformal anomalies $3c-2a$. We also find macroscopic entropy from our asymptotic free energy when the Hofman-Maldacena bound $1/2 < a/c < 3/2$ for the interacting SCFT is satisfied. We study $\mathcal{N} = 1$ theories that are dual to AdS$_5 \times Y{p, p}$ and find that the Cardy limit of our index accounts for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of large black holes.