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We present a comprehensive and technically rigorous analysis of the status of Birkhoff's theorem in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, a paradigmatic two-dimensional model for studying semiclassical gravitational dynamics. While Birkhoff's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 D. Momeni

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

We study the boundary effective action of the colored version of the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. We derive the boundary action, which is the color generalization of the Schwarzian action, from the $su(N,N)$ BF formulation of the colored…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 K. B. Alkalaev , Euihun Joung , Junggi Yoon

The $T{\bar T}$ deformation of a relativistic two-dimensional theory results in a solvable gravitational theory. Deformed scattering amplitudes can be obtained from coupling the undeformed theory to the flat space Jackiw--Teitelboim (JT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-13 Sergei Dubovsky , Victor Gorbenko , Guzman Hernandez-Chifflet

We study thermal correlation functions of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity. We focus on the case of JT supergravity on orientable surfaces without time-reversal symmetry. As shown by Stanford and Witten recently, the path integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Kazumi Okuyama , Kazuhiro Sakai

Recently proposed duality relates the critical level limit $\hat{k} \to -2$ of $SU(2)_{\hat{k}}$ WZW models to a classical three-dimensional Einstein gravity on a sphere. In this paper, we propose a dimensional reduced version of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Kenta Suzuki , Yusuke Taki

We study quantum cosmology of the $2D$ Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity with $\Lambda>0$ and calculate the Hartle-Hawking (HH) wave function for this model in the minisuperspace framework. Our approach is guided by the observation that the JT…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Georgios Fanaras , Alexander Vilenkin

In this paper we use the covariant Peierls bracket to compute the algebra of a sizable number of diffeomorphism-invariant observables in classical Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to fairly arbitrary matter. We then show that many recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Daniel Harlow , Jie-qiang Wu

We study a Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity theory, defined as an Euclidean path integral over orientable supermanifolds with constant negative curvature, that was argued by Stanford and Witten to be captured by a random matrix model in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Clifford V. Johnson , Felipe Rosso , Andrew Svesko

We point out a correspondence between the Jackiw--Teitelboim (JT) gravity and the stationary measure of the Kardar--Parisi--Zhang (KPZ) equation on an interval. By relating the Schwarzian limit of the double-scaled SYK to the weakly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-05 Masataka Watanabe

We study aspects of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) quantum gravity in two-dimensional nearly de Sitter (dS) spacetime, as well as pure de Sitter quantum gravity in three dimensions. These are each theories of boundary modes, which include a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen , Alexander Maloney

We consider Minkowskian Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity in Bondi gauge at finite temperature, with non-zero vacuum energy. Its asymptotic symmetries span an extension of the warped Virasoro group, dubbed "BMS$_2$", which we investigate in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Hamid Afshar , Blagoje Oblak

In Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, which is dual to a random matrix ensemble, the annealed entropy differs from the quenched entropy at low temperatures and goes negative. However, computing the quenched entropy in JT gravity requires a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Stefano Antonini , Luca V. Iliesiu , Pratik Rath , Patrick Tran

Recent work has shown that certain deformations of the scalar potential in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity can be written as double-scaled matrix models. However, some of the deformations exhibit an apparent breakdown of unitarity in the form of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-07 Clifford V. Johnson , Felipe Rosso

We review the various aspects of the 3D Einstein gravity theory with a negative cosmological constant and its boundary description. We also explore its connections to CFTs, modular symmetry, and holography. It is worth noting that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-29 Chen-Te Ma

f(T) gravity is a generalization of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR), where T is the torsion scalar made up of the Weitzenb\"{o}ck connection. This connection describes a spacetime with zero curvature but with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-19 María José Guzmán , Rafael Ferraro

In this paper, we investigate a critical behavior of JT gravity, a model of two-dimensional quantum gravity on constant negatively curved spacetimes. Our approach involves using techniques from random maps to investigate the generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-25 Alicia Castro

In this paper, we investigate different thermodynamic properties of $T\bar{T}+J\bar{T}$ deformed Schwarzian theory and its different gravitational perspectives. First, we compute the partition function of $U(1)$ coupled 2D-gravity with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saptaswa Ghosh , Sounak Pal

A path integral in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is given by integrating over the volume of the moduli of Riemann surfaces with boundaries, known as the "Weil-Petersson volume," together with integrals over wiggles along the boundaries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-14 Yusuke Kimura

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