Konishi lifts a black hole

Abstract

We investigate the \emph{quantum} cohomology of a supercharge $Q$ in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. Recent analyses have revealed a mismatch between the one-loop BPS spectra of the S-dual $SO(7)$ and $Sp(3)$ theories. The $SO(7)$ theory contains a pair of additional graviton (monotone) and non-graviton (fortuitous) cohomologies, whose net contributions cancel in the superconformal index. We show that the quantum-corrected $Q$, inferred from the generalized Konishi anomaly, pairs and lifts these extra cohomologies.

12 pages