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arxiv 2511.22822 v2 pith:C7SYDFY6 submitted 2025-11-28 hep-th

Supersymmetric zeta functions and determinants

Yu Nakayama , Tadashi Okazaki This is my paper
classification hep-th
keywords supersymmetric zeta functionsupersymmetric determinantsupersymmetric indexCardy-like limitsupersymmetric Casimir energycentral chargesanomaly coefficientsBPS degeneracy
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The paper introduces supersymmetric zeta functions and supersymmetric determinants, new spectral objects built from supersymmetric indices via Mellin and Laplace transforms. It claims that the residues and special values of these zeta functions are universally determined by the anomaly coefficients of superconformal field theories, and conversely that those coefficients can be extracted from the zeta functions alone. The central bridge is the proposed identity E_SUSY = ½ Z(−1,0), which connects a zeta value to the supersymmetric Casimir energy. The authors verify the proposal across many free, interacting, and non-Lagrangian examples in two, four, and six dimensions.

Core claim

The paper defines Z(s,z) = Tr(−1)^F (Δ+z)^{−s}, summed over BPS states, and D(z)=exp[∂_s Z(s,z)|_{s=0}], and shows how they encode the spectrum of a supersymmetric theory. It proposes that poles of Z(s,z) at positive integers give the Cardy-like growth of the supersymmetric index, with residues fixed by anomaly coefficients, and that special values at negative integers give regularized energy moments. The main claim is that Z(s,z) provides a new spectral-language route to previously known universal data: residues at s=1,2,… match 't Hooft anomaly coefficients, Z(−1,0) is twice the supersymmetric Casimir energy, and Z(0,0) gives the logarithmic correction in the index. These relations let cen

What carries the argument

The central object is the supersymmetric zeta function Z(s,z), defined as a Dirichlet series over BPS charges with a shift z, together with its associated supersymmetric determinant D(z)=exp[∂_s Z(s,z)|_{s=0}]. Residues of Z at positive integers s=k encode the leading 1/β^k terms in the Cardy-like limit of the index, while the derivative at s=0 gives the constant term that appears in both the index asymptotics and the degeneracy growth. The identity E_SUSY = ½ Z(−1,0) is the load-bearing mechanism that turns special zeta values into Casimir energies.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that the supersymmetric Casimir energy equals half of the zeta value Z(−1,0) is assumed to hold for interacting and non-Lagrangian theories, even though it is only explicitly checked in free theories.

What would settle it

Take a single-particle index of a known interacting superconformal field theory, compute Z(−1,0) from its zeta function, and compare ½ Z(−1,0) with the supersymmetric Casimir energy obtained by independent localization or anomaly-polynomial methods; any mismatch beyond the free-field cases would disprove the universal bridge.

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If this is right

  • If the proposed relations hold, central charges and anomaly coefficients of any SCFT can be read off directly from its single-particle index, bypassing localization or Lagrangian descriptions.
  • The Cardy-like limits of supersymmetric indices become consequences of the analytic structure of Z(s,z), offering a unified explanation across 2d, 4d, and 6d.
  • The supersymmetric determinant provides a new probe of vacuum stability: a vanishing or divergent vacuum exponent D(0) is proposed to signal supersymmetry breaking or absence of a normalizable vacuum.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The identity E_SUSY = ½ Z(−1,0) is verified only for free theories; extending it to all interacting and non-Lagrangian theories is the crucial step that would make central-charge extraction from spectral data fully rigorous.
  • Since Z(s,z) is defined from the plethystic logarithm of the index, the approach could be adapted to flavored or higher-sheet indices, potentially giving a spectral derivation of black-hole entropy counting.
  • The connection between Z(−1,0) and Casimir energy suggests that other negative-integer values, such as Z(−2,0), might encode higher-order scheme-independent energy moments that have not yet been explored.
  • A direct numerical test on a known interacting SCFT with independently computed Casimir energy would settle whether the factor of 1/2 is universal or an artifact of the free-field checks.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper introduces 'supersymmetric zeta functions' Z(s,z) and 'supersymmetric determinants' D(z) associated with the plethystic logarithm (single-particle index) of supersymmetric indices. It derives Mellin-transform relations between the zeta functions and the Cardy-like asymptotics of indices, and between the determinants and the constant term in that asymptotics. It then proposes two universal claims: (i) residues and special values of these zeta functions are determined by anomaly coefficients/central charges of superconformal field theories, and (ii) conversely, anomaly coefficients and central charges can be read off from the zeta functions, using the relation E_SUSY = 1/2 Z(-1,0) (Eq. 2.76). The bulk of the paper computes these zeta functions and determinants for a large number of 2d, 4d, and 6d theories, including free multiplets, SYM, minimal models, and Argyres-Douglas theories, and checks the proposed relations against known central charges.

Significance. If the proposed relations hold, the paper offers a new spectral-language bridge between BPS counting data and conformal anomaly data, with potential applications to Cardy-like limits, Casimir energies, and the 'spectral extraction' of central charges for non-Lagrangian theories. The paper is explicit and computationally rich: it provides concrete zeta functions, determinants, residues, and zeta values for dozens of theories, and in all examples where the comparison is possible it reproduces previously known central charges and anomaly coefficients. These checks give the conjectures nontrivial support. However, the core universal relations are presented as proposals or observations rather than derivations, and the argument that the 'converse' extraction is actually independent of the input data is not fully established.

major comments (3)
  1. [§2.4.4, Eq. (2.76)] The central bridge E_SUSY = 1/2 Z(-1,0) is introduced as a 'non-trivial relation' and checked explicitly only for free theories via Kim's regularized trace (2.77)-(2.78). For interacting and non-Lagrangian theories, including the AD theories in §5.2.5-5.2.8, this relation is used as a working assumption to convert zeta values into central charges. But for such theories the single-particle index is a plethystic-logarithm generating function, not literally the one-particle spectrum, so the zeta-regularized first moment is not manifestly the supersymmetric Casimir energy. This is load-bearing for the paper's 'converse' claim: without a derivation or an independent check of (2.76) beyond free fields, the extraction of central charges from zeta values rests on an unproved conjecture. Please either provide a derivation (e.g., from the anomaly polynomial / equivariant integral framework) or exp
  2. [§5.1, Eq. (5.8); §5.2, Eq. (5.140); §6, Eqs. (6.7)-(6.10)] The universal residue-to-anomaly identities (5.8), (5.140), (6.7)-(6.9) and the special-value formula (6.10) are not derived in this paper; they are imported from earlier Cardy-limit / anomaly computations (di Pietro-Komargodski, etc.) or 'observed' from the examples. The 6d formula (6.10) in particular is checked only for free hyper/tensor/vector multiplets. Since the headline claim includes the converse statement that anomaly coefficients can be 'calculated from' the zeta functions, the paper should state clearly that the zeta functions reproduce, rather than independently derive, these anomaly relations. As written, the converse is a rearrangement of previously known input, not a new spectral derivation. Please either prove the relevant universal relations from the zeta-function formalism or temper the converse claim accordingly.
  3. [§2.4.3 and §4.1.1] The asymptotic degeneracy formula (2.64) contains a constant term Z(0,0)' = log D(0) whose determination from growth data is ambiguous, as the authors themselves note in §2.4.3 and as the numerical example in §4.1.1 shows (the ratio of asymptotic to exact value approaches 2, not 1, for large n). This does not affect the leading poles, but it means that special values such as Z(0,0)' and D(0) cannot be robustly extracted from the asymptotic growth of coefficients without additional input. Since the paper emphasizes the spectral origin of the zeta values, the authors should either resolve this ambiguity or clearly mark it as an obstruction to the 'read off from growth data' aspect of their program.
minor comments (4)
  1. [§2.2, Eq. (2.7)] The Mellin-transform derivation uses both q and t as integration variables, which can confuse; please use a single dummy variable and clarify the contour/regularization of the exchange of sum and integral.
  2. [§4.1.1, Eq. (4.32)] The asymptotic formula contains a factor sin(pi r/2) even though it is then evaluated at r=1; please indicate whether this factor is meant to be kept for general r or is a typo.
  3. [§5.2.5, table (5.270)] The table would be easier to read if the columns 'c_4d' and 'a_4d' included the numerical values for the smallest k, as the corresponding table in §5.2.7 does; currently only the closed forms are given.
  4. [General] The paper is very long and contains many examples; a summary table or flowchart collecting the universal formulas (residue/anomaly relations, E_SUSY = 1/2 Z(-1,0)) and the status of each (derived vs. observed vs. conjectured) would greatly improve readability and would make the paper's foundational assumptions more transparent.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

One definitional redundancy in the Casimir-energy bridge; no load-bearing circularity in the main zeta-function derivation.

specific steps
  1. self definitional [§2.4.4, eqs. (2.35)–(2.36) and (2.76)–(2.78); used in §5.2.5–5.2.8]
    "By comparing the supersymmetric Casimir energies studied in the literature with our computation of the supersymmetric zeta values in various examples, we find that a non-trivial relation exists: ESUSY = 1/2 Z(−1,0) ... For free theories ... (2.76) reproduces the formulae ... originally pointed out by Kim [59], where ... ESUSY = 1/2 Tr(−1)F ∆ ... It can be evaluated from the single-particle index i(q) as ESUSY = 1/2 lim q→1− q ∂/∂q i(q), which turns out to be compatible with (2.76)."

    By the paper’s own definitions, Z(s,z) is built from the same single-particle index i(q)=Σ δ(ν)q^ν ((2.35)–(2.36)), so Z(−1,0)=Σ δ(ν)ν is exactly the regularized first moment appearing in Kim’s formula (2.78). Thus (2.76) is not an independent relation discovered from the zeta formalism; it is Kim’s one-particle trace formula rewritten in zeta notation. When the paper later uses (2.76) to convert Z_Schur(−1,0) into central charges for non-Lagrangian AD theories (§5.2.5–5.2.8), the output is the same single-particle spectral moment relabeled as a prediction, unless the Kim-type identification is independently established for those theories. The paper does not do this; it checks consistency against known central charges.

full rationale

The paper’s central zeta-function machinery is not circular: the Mellin-transform relation between the supersymmetric index and Z(s,z), the residue-to-Cardy-limit dictionary (2.47), and the asymptotic degeneracy formulae are derived from the stated definitions. The identifications of residues with anomaly coefficients and of special values with central charges are explicitly imported from or checked against prior external work (e.g., [44,45,50,66,139]) and are presented as proposals/observations rather than as first-principles derivations. The main caveat is the bridge ESUSY = ½Z(−1,0): for the single-particle index, Z(−1,0) is literally the regularized first moment of the same trace used in Kim’s formula, so the relation is a notational re-expression of an existing result, not a new discovery. Its extension to non-Lagrangian theories is an unproved assumption, and the resulting central-charge extractions are consistency checks against known values. That is a correctness/assumption concern, not a hidden circularity: the paper is transparent about proposing the relation and does not use the target central charges as input to compute the zeta functions. There is no load-bearing self-citation chain and no fitted parameter being renamed as a prediction. Overall, apart from the definitional redundancy in (2.76), the derivation chain has independent content and is benchmarked externally.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 7 axioms · 2 invented entities

The central relations rest on: (i) Mellin/Tauberian theorems (standard), (ii) Barnes residue formulas (standard), (iii) imported Cardy-limit/anomaly results, (iv) the proposed bridge (2.76), and (v) conjectural single-particle indices for AD theories. The paper contributes the synthesis and the catalog, not the individual ingredients; free mixing parameters are adjusted to match known central charges in several examples.

free parameters (3)
  • R_x, R_w (2d N=(0,2) trial R-symmetry mixing coefficients) = 0 (after c-extremization gives negative central charges in several cases)
    Used to obtain correct central charges via Sacchi's prescription in §4.1.6-4.1.9; the values are chosen to match known results rather than derived.
  • B (4d N=1 U(1)_B mixing coefficient) = 0
    Fixed by a-maximization in §5.1.3-5.1.4 to reproduce known central charges.
  • α (generalized Schur parameter) = free; α=1 is ordinary Schur
    Not fitted, but varies; affects residues Z_Schurα = 2α etc. in §5.2.1.
axioms (7)
  • domain assumption Meromorphic continuation and polynomial-growth bounds (2.37) for zeta functions of single-particle indices
    Required for the contour-shift derivation of (2.47); not proved for all theories considered, only assumed (stated in §2.4.1).
  • ad hoc to paper E_SUSY = ½ Z(−1,0) (eq. 2.76)
    Proposed, checked in free theories; used for non-Lagrangian theories §2.4.4 and §5.2.5-5.2.8.
  • domain assumption Universal residue-anomaly relations: (4.11), (5.8), (6.7)-(6.9) from [44,45,50]
    Imported from prior Cardy-limit literature; not re-derived from zeta functions.
  • domain assumption Plethystic logarithm/exponential represents the index's single-particle content
    Standard in SUSY index theory; invoked in §2.4.
  • domain assumption Conjectural dualities and single-particle indices for AD theories / J^h∨[k] (from [137,126,128])
    Inputs for §5.2.5-5.2.9; if wrong, the computed zeta values and central charges change.
  • standard math Barnes zeta residue and special-value formulas (B.1)-(B.4), (C.17)-(C.18)
    Used throughout for residues and Z(−1,0).
  • standard math Wiener-Ikehara and Meinardus theorems
    Used in §2.2 and §2.4.3 for asymptotic degeneracy.
invented entities (2)
  • Zeta-index Z(0,0) no independent evidence
    purpose: Coefficient of log β in Cardy-like limit; proposed to encode complex dimension of the quantum Coulomb branch (4d)
    Interpretation is borrowed from earlier work [45,47]; no independent handle.
  • Vacuum exponent D(0) no independent evidence
    purpose: Criterion: D(0)=0 SUSY breaking, D(0)=∞ no stable vacuum (eq. 3.8)
    Proposed; only example-based support (Polonyi vs non-compact bosons).

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We define supersymmetric zeta functions and supersymmetric determinants, which can reveal spectral properties complementary to those captured by the supersymmetric indices. They play a crucial role in analyzing the Cardy-like behaviors of the supersymmetric indices and the supersymmetric Casimir energies associated with the supersymmetric partition functions. We investigate a variety of examples of the supersymmetric zeta functions and determinants for two-, four-, and six-dimensional supersymmetric field theories.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.22822 by Tadashi Okazaki, Yu Nakayama.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The vacuum exponent D 2d (0, 2) chiralr NS (0). It is shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The vacuum exponent D 2d (0, 2) Fermir NS (0). 4.1.3 2d N = (0, 2) vector multiplet The elliptic genus of the 2d N = (0, 2) U(1) vector multiplet is I 2d (0, 2) vec NS (q) = (q) 2 ∞. (4.46) The single-particle index is i 2d (0, 2) vec NS (q) = − 2q 1 − q . (4.47) We have the supersymmetric zeta function Z 2d (0, 2) vec NS (s, z) = −2ζ(s, 1 + z). (4.48) It has a simple pole at s = 1 with residue Ress=1Z 2d … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The vacuum exponent D 2d (2, 2) chiralr NS (0). 4.2.2 2d N = (2, 2) vector multiplet The N = (2, 2) U(1) vector multiplet can be viewed as the twisted chiral multiplet of the left-moving R-charge r = +1. The elliptic genus in the NSNS sector is given by combining the indices of the N = (0, 2) vector multiplet and the N = (0, 2) chiral multiplet of R-charge +1 I 2d (2, 2) vec NS (y; q) = (q) 2 ∞ (q 1 2 y; q… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The vacuum exponent D4d N = 1 chiralr (0; 1, 1). When one introduces a mass term W = λΦ 2 , the chiral multiplet has R-charge r = 1. The theory has a single supersymmetric vacuum. The supersymmetric index (5.14) is equal to 1 and the supersymmetric zeta function (5.18) vanishes. The vacuum exponent D4d N = 1 chiralr (0; 1, 1) is 1. For the theory of a chiral multiplet with a linear superpotential W = λΦ, t… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The special value ζ ′ (−1, a). (see e.g. [158, 159]). For example, we have ζ ′ (−1, 1 6 ) = log(12) 144 − π 12√ 3 + ψ (1)( 1 3 ) 8 √ 3π + 1 6  1 12 − log A  = 0.0704526 . . . , (C.10) ζ ′ (−1, 1 4 ) = G 4π − 1 8  1 12 − log A  = 0.0935679 . . . , (C.11) ζ ′ (−1, 1 3 ) = − log(3) 72 − π 18√ 3 + ψ (1)( 1 3 ) 12√ 3π − 1 3  1 12 − log A  = 0.0937262 . . . , (C.12) ζ ′ (−1, 1 2 ) = − log(2) 24 − 1 2  1 1… view at source ↗

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