The Topologically Twisted Index in the 't Hooft Limit and the Dual AdS$_4$ Black Hole Entropy

Abstract

We study the topologically twisted index of $\mathcal{N}=6$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons matter theory with $U(N)_k \times U(N)_{-k}$ gauge group in the 't Hooft limit, that is, for $N, k \, \to \infty$ with $\lambda=N/k$ fixed. In the regime where $\lambda$ is fixed and large we find an analytical expression for the leading order term of the index. The leading term of the index matches precisely the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the dual asymptotically AdS$_4$ magnetically charged black holes embedded in IIA supergrvity on AdS$_4\times \mathbb{CP}^3$, after a standard Legendre transformation. We numerically explore the genus expansion of the topologically twisteed index beyond the leading order, focusing on the genus one contribution, that is, $N^0$. We find qualitative agreement with the topological expansion of the free energy on $S^3$ at genus one. Our logarithmic in $\lambda$ term constitutes a prediction for the one-loop effective action on the IIA supergravity side.