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It has been recently discovered that the $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$ deformation is closely-related to Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. At classical level, the introduction of this perturbation induces an interaction between the stress-energy tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Riccardo Conti , Stefano Negro , Roberto Tateo

We consider the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of two dimensional Yang--Mills theory on general curved backgrounds. We compute the deformed partition function through an integral transformation over frame fields weighted by a Gaussian kernel. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Aurora Ireland , Vasudev Shyam

We classify and study defects in 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. We show these are holographically described by a deformation of the Schwarzian theory where the reparametrization mode is integrated over different coadjoint orbits of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas G. Mertens , Gustavo J. Turiaci

We show that the most general two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory with second-order field equations, which includes Horndeski and Kinetic Gravity Braiding families, may be obtained from the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity through a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 M. Shams Nejati , M. H. Vahidinia

A deformation of the N=2 topological string partition function is analyzed by considering higher dimensional F-terms of the type W^{2g}*Upsilon^n, where W is the chiral Weyl superfield and each Upsilon factor stands for the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 I. Antoniadis , S. Hohenegger , K. S. Narain , T. R. Taylor

We study two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity on the disk topology by using a BF gauge theory in the presence of a boundary term. The system can be equivalently written in a supersymmetric way by introducing auxiliary gauginos and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-06 Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

We study the $T\bar T$ deformation using its formulation as a CFT coupled to two-dimensional dynamical gravity. Working within the BRST formalism, we apply the intertwiner construction of arXiv:2411.08865 to obtain a unitary "dressing" map…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Elia de Sabbata , Pietro Antonio Grassi , Massimo Porrati

In this note we study the $1+1$ dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity in Lorentzian signature, explicitly constructing the gauge-invariant classical phase space and the quantum Hilbert space and Hamiltonian. We also semiclassically compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-11 Daniel Harlow , Daniel Jafferis

We investigate the proposed holographic duality between the TsT transformation of IIB string theory on AdS$_3\times {\cal N}$ with NS-NS flux and a single-trace $T\bar{T}$ deformation of the symmetric orbifold CFT. We present a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-11 Wei Cui , Hongfei Shu , Wei Song , Juntao Wang

This paper reviews and extends the recently discovered connections between marginal and irrelevant stress-energy tensor deformations and gravity theories in arbitrary space-time dimensions. We start by discussing how $T\bar{T}$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolò Brizio , Tommaso Morone , Roberto Tateo

We show the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theories is equivalent to replacing the spacetime dependence of the fields with dependence on the indices of infinitely large matrices. We show how this correspondence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Vasudev Shyam , Yigit Yargic

We provide a simple geometric meaning for deformations of so-called $T{\overline T}$ type in relativistic and non-relativistic systems. Deformations by the cross products of energy and momentum currents in integrable quantum field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 John Cardy , Benjamin Doyon

We study the $T\bar T$ deformation on multiquantum mechanical systems. By introducing dynamical coordinate transformation, we reformulate the one-dimensional $T\bar T$ deformation of generic quantum mechanical systems, which is consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-29 Song He , Zhuo-Yu Xian

Motivated by the two-dimensional massive gravity description of $T\overline{T}$ deformations, we propose a direct generalization in $d$ dimensions. Our methodology indicates that all terms up to order $d$ are present in the deformation. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-26 Evangelos Tsolakidis

We derive various properties of symmetric product orbifolds of $T\bar{T}$ and $J\bar{T}$ - deformed CFTs from a field-theoretical perspective. First, we generalise the known formula for the torus partition function of a symmetric orbifold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Soumangsu Chakraborty , Silvia Georgescu , Monica Guica

We specify bulk coordinates in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity using a boundary-intrinsic radar definition. This allows us to study and calculate exactly diff-invariant bulk correlation functions of matter-coupled JT gravity, which are found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Henri Verschelde

Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity in two-dimensional de Sitter space is an intriguing toy model for a quantum mechanical description of an inflationary phase of the universe, including initial conditions. Starting from exact solutions of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Wilfried Buchmuller , Alexander Westphal

Two remarkable facts about JT two-dimensional dilaton-gravity have been recently uncovered: this theory is dual to an ensemble of quantum mechanical theories; and such ensemble is described by a random matrix model which itself may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Paolo Gregori , Ricardo Schiappa

We study the relation between class S theories on punctured tori and isomonodromic deformations of flat SL(N) connections on the two dimensional torus with punctures. Turning on the self dual $\Omega$-background corresponds to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Giulio Bonelli , Fabrizio Del Monte , Pavlo Gavrylenko , Alessandro Tanzini

We consider KdV currents in a quantum field theory obtained by deforming a two dimensional conformal field theory on a cylinder via the irrelevant operator $T{\bar T}$. In this paper we determine their one-point functions modular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-18 Meseret Asrat