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We study the Cardy-like limit of the superconformal index of generic \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 SCFTs with ABCD gauge algebra, providing strong evidence for a universal formula that captures the behavior of the index at finite order in the rank and in the fugacities associated to angular momenta. The formula extends previous results valid at lowest order, and generalizes them to generic SCFTs. We corroborate the validity of our proposal by studying several examples, beyond the well-understood toric class. We compute the index also for models without a weakly-coupled gravity dual, whose gravitational anomaly is not of order one.
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Amariti, A., Fazzi, M. & Segati, A. Expanding on the Cardy-like limit of the SCI of 4d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 ABCD SCFTs. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 141 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2021)141
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