Fortuitous BMN Operators from Multiple Cores
We develop a systematic construction of fortuitous cohomology classes in the BMN sector of $\mathcal N=4$ super Yang--Mills theory from multiple lower-rank building blocks. For arbitrary partitions of colour space, we construct corrected effective letters that obey the supersymmetry transformations of the corresponding lower-rank theories. These allow us to build gauge-invariant, $Q$-closed polynomial operators. A restriction map recovers the constituent cohomology classes, establishing non-exactness and fortuity without brute-force computations. As an explicit example, we combine two fortuitous $SU(2)$ cores to construct a fortuitous class in $SU(4)$. Our results provide a systematic approach to the structure of fortuitous cohomology at finite $N$.
Authors
- Minkyoo Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4815-2698)
- Sarthak Duary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4535-3198)
- Robert de Mello Koch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8129-6242)
- Sinong Liu
Publication Details
- Journal
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Published
- 2026-11-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2611.04722
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- preprint