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We study systems in arbitrary space-time dimensions where matter, deformed by $\mathrm{T}\bar{\mathrm{T}}$-like irrelevant operators, is coupled to gravity in the Palatini formalism. The dynamically equivalent perspective is investigated,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-27 Tommaso Morone , Stefano Negro , Roberto Tateo

Within the path integral formalism, we compute the disk partition functions of two dimensional Liouville and JT quantum gravity theories coupled to a matter CFT of central charge $c$, with cosmological constant $\Lambda$, in the limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Soumyadeep Chaudhuri , Frank Ferrari

It is well-known that the partition function of the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is obtained by an integral transformation of volumes of moduli spaces for Riemann surfaces, also known as the Weil-Petersson volumes. This fact enables us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Takaki Matsumoto , Kazumi Okuyama

In this work, we show that a gauge-theoretic description of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity naturally yields a Henneaux-Teitelboim (HT) unimodular gravity via a central extension of its isometry group, valid for both flat and curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Bruno Alexandre , Altay Etkin , Farbod-Sayyed Rassouli

We apply harmonic analysis to study the $T\bar{T}$-deformed torus partition function. We first express the CFT partition functions in terms of Maass waveforms, including the Eisenstein series and cusp forms. These basis functions turn out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Jie Gu , Jue Hou , Yunfeng Jiang

$T\overline{T}$-deformed two-dimensional quantum Maxwell theory on the torus is examined, taking into account nonperturbative effects in the deformation parameter $\mu$. We study the deformed partition function solving the relevant flow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Luca Griguolo , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

This review explores recent advances in the theory of $T\bar{T}$ deformation, an irrelevant yet solvable deformation of quantum field theories defined via the quadratic form of the energy-momentum tensor. It addresses classical and quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Song He , Yi Li , Hao Ouyang , Yuan Sun

JT gravity has a first-order formulation as a two-dimensional BF theory, which can be viewed as the dimensional reduction of the Chern-Simons description of $3d$ gravity. We consider $T\bar{T}$-type deformations of the $(0+1)$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Stephen Ebert , Christian Ferko , Hao-Yu Sun , Zhengdi Sun

The irrelevant composite operator $T\bar{T}$, constructed from components of the stress-energy tensor, exhibits unique properties in two-dimensional quantum field theories and represents a distinctive form of integrable deformation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Nicolò Brizio , Tommaso Morone , Roberto Tateo

We attempt to understand the CFT$_1$ structure underlying (2+1)D gravity in flat spacetime via dimensional reduction. We observe that under superrotation, the hyperbolic (and dS$_2$) slices of flat spacetime transform to asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-03 Arindam Bhattacharjee , Muktajyoti Saha

It is well known that Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity posses the simplest theory on 2-dimensional gravity. The model has been fruitfully studied in recent years. In the present work, we investigate exact solutions for both JT and deformed JT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-24 Davood Momeni , Phongpichit Channuie

Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is a 1+1-dimensional toy model for quantum gravity in four spacetime dimensions. In the absence of matter, JT gravity is a topological field theory and there are no local observables. The introduction of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-04 Wolfgang Wieland

We calculate the torus partition sum of a general $CFT_2$ with left and right moving conserved currents $J$ and $\bar J$, perturbed by a combination of the irrelevant operators $T\bar T$, $J\bar T$ and $T\bar J$. We use string theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Akikazu Hashimoto , David Kutasov

We study the correlation functions of local operators in unitary $\textrm{T}\bar{\textrm{T}}$-deformed field theories defined on a torus, using their formulation in terms of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. We focus on the two-point correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 Netanel Barel

Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity in two-dimensional de Sitter space is an intriguing model for cosmological "wave functions of the universe". Its minisuperspace version already contains all physical information. The size of compact slices is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Wilfried Buchmuller , Arthur Hebecker , Alexander Westphal

Some recently proposed definitions of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and supergravities in terms of combinations of minimal string models are explored, with a focus on physics beyond the perturbative expansion in spacetime topology. While this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Clifford V. Johnson

We present the exact solution for the scattering problem in the flat space Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity coupled to an arbitrary quantum field theory. JT gravity results in a gravitational dressing of field theoretical scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Sergei Dubovsky , Victor Gorbenko , Mehrdad Mirbabayi

The formulation of two-dimensional quantum gravity at finite cutoff remains an open problem. We revisit this question in JT gravity from two perspectives: the closed-channel bulk path integral and the path integral over boundary curves.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Luca Griguolo , Jacopo Papalini , Lorenzo Russo , Domenico Seminara

We study correlators in two-dimensional $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories by interpreting the $T\bar{T}$ deformation as a coupling to two-dimensional gravity. To demonstrate the utility of the massive gravity framework as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Shinji Hirano , Vinayak Raj

Pure gravity in AdS$_3$ is a theory of boundary excitations, most simply expressed as a constrained free scalar with an improved stress tensor that is needed to match the Brown--Henneaux central charge. Excising a finite part of AdS gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Per Kraus , Ruben Monten , Konstantinos Roumpedakis