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We consider supersymmetric theories on a space with compact space-like slices. One can count BPS representations weighted by (−1)F, or, equivalently, study supersymmetric partition functions by compactifying the time direction. A special case of this general construction corresponds to the counting of short representations of the superconformal group. We show that in four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) theories the “high temperature” asymptotics of such counting problems is fixed by the anomalies of the theory. Notably, the combination a − c of the trace anomalies plays a crucial role. We also propose similar formulae for six-dimensional (1, 0) theories.
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Di Pietro, L., Komargodski, Z. Cardy formulae for SUSY theories in d = 4 and d = 6. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 31 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2014)031
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