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Limits of JT gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-07 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct various limits of JT gravity, including Newton-Cartan and Carrollian versions of dilaton gravity in two dimensions as well as a theory on the three-dimensional light cone. In the BF formulation our boundary conditions relate boundary connection with boundary scalar, yielding as boundary action the particle action on a group manifold or some Hamiltonian reduction thereof. After recovering in our formulation the Schwarzian for JT, we show that AdS-Carroll gravity yields a twisted warped boundary action. We comment on numerous applications and generalizations.

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@article{arxiv.2011.13870,
  title  = {Limits of JT gravity},
  author = {Daniel Grumiller and Jelle Hartong and Stefan Prohazka and Jakob Salzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13870},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

41 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; v2: Matches published version + Footnote 11; v3: Corrected typo in Carrollian/Galilean generalized dilaton potential

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