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20132026
most citedCardy-like asymptotics of the 4d index and AdS blackholes

85 citations · 476 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

hep-th2026

Perturbative Coulomb branches on : the global D-term potential

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Daniel J. Resnick

We find the perturbative potential on the 3d Coulomb branch arising from a chiral 4d gauge theory on , zeta-regular…

math.QA2026

A new product formula for , with applications to asymptotics

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Hjalmar Rosengren

We express the -Pochhammer symbol as an infinite product of gamma functions, analogously to how Narukawa expressed the elliptic gamma function as an infinite prod…

hep-th2025

Integrable Spherical Brane Model at Large

Mohsen Gheisarieha, Ramtin M. Yazdi, Arash Arabi Ardehali

We study one of the simplest integrable two-dimensional quantum field theories with a boundary: free non-compact scalars in the bulk, constrained non-linearly on the boundary t…

hep-th2025

Cardy limit of the 3d superconformal index

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Mathieu Boisvert, Shehab Hossam Fadda

We study the superconformal index of 3d gauge theories in Cardy-like limits , extending techniques recently developed in the 4d…

hep-th2025

Graded Unitarity in the SCFT/VOA Correspondence

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Christopher Beem, Madalena Lemos +1

Vertex algebras that arise from four-dimensional, superconformal field theories inherit a collection of novel structural properties from their four-dimensional ance…

hep-th2024

Topologically charged BPS microstates in AdS/CFT

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Hare Krishna

In the standard AdS/CFT with , as well as the Datta-Eberhardt-Gaberdiel variant with $\mathrm{sym}^N(T^4/\mathb…

hep-th2024★ 9 cited

3d SUSY enhancement and non-semisimple TQFTs from four dimensions

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Dongmin Gang, Neville Joshua Rajappa +1

It has been recently shown that the celebrated SCFT/VOA correspondence can be bridged via three-dimensional field theories arising from a specific R-symmetry twisted circle…

hep-th2023

Modified supersymmetric indices in AdS/CFT

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Hare Krishna

We consider the AdS/CFT dualities proposed by Eberhardt, where the bulk geometry is AdS, and the CFT is a deformat…

hep-th2021★ 24 cited

Decomposition of BPS Moduli Spaces and Asymptotics of Supersymmetric Partition Functions

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Junho Hong

We present a prototype for Wilsonian analysis of asymptotics of supersymmetric partition functions of non-abelian gauge theories. Localization allows expressing such partition func…

hep-th2021★ 2 cited

Central charges, elliptic genera, and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in AdS/CFT

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Jiaqi Jiang, Wenli Zhao

We consider AdS/CFT dualities proposed in the large central charge limit () by Eberhardt. Here we propose the associated D1-D5 systems to be…

hep-th2021★ 1 cited

The 4d superconformal index near roots of unity and 3d Chern-Simons theory

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Sameer Murthy

We consider the superconformal index of 4d gauge theories. The Hamiltonian index is defined in a standard manner as the Witten inde…

hep-th2019★ 69 cited

Asymptotic growth of the 4d index and partially deconfined phases

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Junho Hong, James T. Liu

We study the Cardy-like asymptotics of the 4d index and demonstrate the existence of partially deconfined phases where the asymptotic growth of the index is not as r…

hep-th2019★ 6 cited

From Exact Results to Gauge Dynamics on

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Luca Cassia, Yongchao Lü

We revisit the vacuum structure of the Intriligator-Seiberg-Shenker model on . Guided by the Cardy-like asymptotics of its Romelsberger inde…

hep-th2019★ 85 cited

Cardy-like asymptotics of the 4d index and AdS blackholes

Arash Arabi Ardehali

Choi, Kim, Kim, and Nahmgoong have recently pioneered analyzing a Cardy-like limit of the superconformal index of the 4d theory with complexified fugacities which e…

hep-th2018★ 9 cited

Quantum Corrections to Central Charges and Supersymmetric Casimir Energy in AdS/CFT

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Finn Larsen, James T. Liu +1

We study the Casimir energy of bulk fields in AdS and its relation to subleading terms in the central charge of the dual CFT. Computing both sides of the standard CFT r…

math-ph2017★ 1 cited

The Hyperbolic Asymptotics of Elliptic Hypergeometric Integrals Arising in Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

Arash Arabi Ardehali

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that i) the framework of elliptic hypergeometric integrals (EHIs) can be extended by input from supersymmetric gauge theory, and ii) a…

hep-th2016★ 8 cited

High-temperature asymptotics of the 4d superconformal index

Arash Arabi Ardehali

The superconformal index of a typical Lagrangian 4d SCFT is given by a special function known as an elliptic hypergeometric integral (EHI). The high-temperature limit of the index…

hep-th2015★ 71 cited

High-temperature asymptotics of supersymmetric partition functions

Arash Arabi Ardehali

We study the supersymmetric partition function of 4d supersymmetric gauge theories with a U(1) R-symmetry on Euclidean , with the unit-radius squashed three-…

hep-th2015★ 51 cited

High-Temperature Expansion of Supersymmetric Partition Functions

Arash Arabi Ardehali, James T. Liu, Phillip Szepietowski

Di Pietro and Komargodski have recently demonstrated a four-dimensional counterpart of Cardy's formula, which gives the leading high-temperature () behavior of sup…

hep-th2014★ 28 cited

Central charges from the superconformal index

Arash Arabi Ardehali, James T. Liu, Phillip Szepietowski

We present prescriptions for obtaining the central charges, and , of a four dimensional superconformal quantum field theory from the superconformal index. At infinite , f…

hep-th2014★ 30 cited

from the superconformal index

Arash Arabi Ardehali, James T. Liu, Phillip Szepietowski

We present a prescription for obtaining the difference of the central charges, c-a, of a four dimensional superconformal quantum field theory from its single-trace index. The formu…

hep-th2014★ 4 cited

On Exactly Marginal Deformations Dual to -Field Moduli of IIB Theory on SE

Arash Arabi Ardehali, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

The complex dimension of the space of exactly marginal deformations for quiver CFTs dual to IIB theory compactified on is known to be generically three. Simple general fo…

hep-th2013★ 39 cited

1/N^2 corrections to the holographic Weyl anomaly

Arash Arabi Ardehali, James T. Liu, Phillip Szepietowski

We compute the O(1) contribution to holographic c-a for IIB supergravity on AdS_5 x S^5/Z_n and on AdS_5 x T^{1,1}/Z_n. In both cases, we find agreement with the dual field theory…

hep-th2013★ 12 cited

The shortened KK spectrum of IIB supergravity on Y^{p,q}

Arash Arabi Ardehali, James T. Liu, Phillip Szepietowski

We examine the shortened KK spectrum of IIB supergravity compactified on Y^{p,q} and conjecture that the spectrum we have obtained is complete. The (untwisted) shortened spectrum o…