$$ \mathcal{N}=2 $$ universality at strong coupling
Abstract
A bstract We present a detailed analysis of integrated correlators for an $$ \mathcal{N}=2 $$ N = 2 supercon-formal field theory on a squashed sphere with SU( N ) gauge group and fundamental/anti-symmetric matter. Employing the matrix model arising from supersymmetric localisation, we compute derivatives of the partition function $$ \mathcal{Z} $$ Z with respect to the fundamental mass ( μ ), the anti-symmetric mass ( m ) and the squashing parameter ( b ), corresponding to integrated insertions of the $$ \mathcal{N}=2 $$ N = 2 flavour-current and stress-tensor multiplets, which are holographically dual to gluon and graviton scatterings in the presence of D7-branes. For correlators dual to only graviton scatterings, we confirm the planar-limit equivalence with $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ N = 4 SYM. Our main result is a remarkable universality for the mixed gluon-graviton scattering amplitudes off D7-branes, obtained from $$ {\partial}_{\mu}^2{\partial}_m^2\log \mathcal{Z} $$ ∂ μ 2 ∂ m 2 log Z and $$ {\partial}_{\mu}^2{\partial}_b^2\log \mathcal{Z} $$ ∂ μ 2 ∂ b 2 log Z . We show that the leading and sub-leading large- N contributions in the strong-coupling regime are governed by universal asymptotic series, identical to those found for integrated giant-graviton correlators in $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ N = 4 SYM. We also propose an SL(2, ℤ )-invariant completion of these results in terms of non-holomorphic Eisenstein series. This completion provides exact constraints on higher-derivative terms in the dual AdS 5 brane-string amplitudes and highlights an unexpected universality across distinct superconformal theories at strong coupling.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Volume
- 2026
- Issue
- 2
- Publication date
- 2 February 2026
- Language
- EN