Typicality, Black Hole Microstates and Superconformal Field Theories

TL;DR

This paper studies the structure and counting of heavy BPS operators in superconformal quiver gauge theories, revealing universal patterns linked to black hole microstates and dual giant graviton configurations.

Contribution

It introduces a geometric method for counting heavy mesonic operators and identifies universal structures that relate to black hole microstates in AdS/CFT correspondence.

Findings

Maximized entropy at specific charge ratios

Universal structure of heavy mesonic operators

Connection to dual black hole microstates

Abstract

We analyze the structure of heavy multitrace BPS operators in N = 1 superconformal quiver gauge theories that arise on the worldvolume of D3-branes on an affine toric cone. We exhibit a geometric procedure for counting heavy mesonic operators with given U(1) charges. We show that for any fixed linear combination of the U(1) charges, the entropy is maximized when the charges are in certain ratios. This selects preferred directions in the charge space that can be determined with the help of a piece of string. We show that almost all heavy mesonic operators of fixed U(1) charges share a universal structure. This universality reflects the properties of the dual extremal black holes whose microstates they create. We also interpret our results in terms of typical configurations of dual giant gravitons in AdS space.