Seok Kim

collaborators

3 papers

hep-th2025

BPS phases and fortuity in higher spin holography

Seok Kim, Jehyun Lee, Siyul Lee +1

We study the BPS states of $U (N)_{k} \times U (1)_{- k}$ vector Chern-Simons theory on a sphere at weak coupling $I^» = \frac{N}{k} ≪ 1$ , dual to an AdS $_{4}$ higher spin gravity. Higher sp…

hep-th2025

Towards quantum black hole microstates

Sunjin Choi, Seok Kim, Eunwoo Lee +2

We study the cohomology of local BPS operators in $N = 4$ Yang-Mills theory. The finite $N$ cohomologies consist of the graviton part (subject to the stringy exclusion prin…

hep-th2025

Exact QFT duals of AdS black holes

Sunjin Choi, Saebyeok Jeong, Seok Kim +1

We construct large $N$ saddle points of the matrix model for the $N = 4$ Yang-Mills index dual to the BPS black holes in $A d S_{5} \times S^{5}$ , in two different setups. When th…