New Bethe vacua for $\mathcal{N}=2$ elliptic models

Abstract

We study the superconformal index of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ elliptic models through the Bethe Ansatz approach, where the index is evaluated as a sum of vacua arising from a set of transcendental equations. Starting from the known discrete solutions of these equations, that we refer to as progenitors, we show that there exist large classes of new descendant solutions. We then show that the solutions can be organized into orbits of the S-duality group, mimicking its action on the massive vacua of the $\mathcal{N}=1^*$ deformations of the elliptic spin Calogero-Moser models. In this way we generalize the results already obtained for $\mathcal{N}=4$ $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ SYM, where a relation between the discrete solutions to the Bethe Ansatz Equations and the massive vacua of its $\mathcal{N}=1^*$ massive deformation was conjectured. We conclude our analysis by determining the contributions of the new descendant solutions to the index.