English

Universal flow equations and chaos bound saturation in 2d dilaton gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that several features of the Jackiw-Teitelboim model are in fact universal properties of two-dimensional Maxwell-dilaton gravity theories with a broad class of asymptotics. These theories satisfy a flow equation with the structure of a dimensionally reduced TTbar deformation, and exhibit chaotic behavior signaled by a maximal Lyapunov exponent. One consequence of our results is a no-go theorem for smooth flows from an asymptotically AdS2 region to a de Sitter fixed point.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.03673,
  title  = {Universal flow equations and chaos bound saturation in 2d dilaton gravity},
  author = {Daniel Grumiller and Robert McNees},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.03673},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21pp, 2figs, v2: added remarks in sections 4.3 and 6 and two refs, v3: added final paragraph in conclusions

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