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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 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

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

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

Recently, Saad, Shenker and Stanford showed how to define the genus expansion of Jackiw-Teitelboim quantum gravity in terms of a double-scaled Hermitian matrix model. However, the model's non-perturbative sector has fatal instabilities at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Clifford V. Johnson

Recently, it has been argued in [1] that Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity can be naturally realized in the Karch-Randall braneworld in $(2+1)$ dimensions. Using the `complexity=volume' proposal, we studied this model and computed the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Aranya Bhattacharya , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Ayan K. Patra

We present evidence for a duality between Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity minimally coupled to a free massive scalar field and a single-trace two-matrix model. One matrix is the Hamiltonian $H$ of a holographic disorder-averaged quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Daniel Louis Jafferis , David K. Kolchmeyer , Baur Mukhametzhanov , Julian Sonner

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 propose that a class of new topologies, for which there is no classical solution, should be included in the path integral of three-dimensional pure gravity, and that their inclusion solves pathological negativities in the spectrum,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Henry Maxfield , Gustavo J. Turiaci

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

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

We introduce the colored version of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity which is the two-dimensional dilaton gravity model with matrix-valued fields. It is straightforwardly formulated in terms of BF action with $su(N,N)$ gauge algebra so that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 K. B. Alkalaev , Euihun Joung , Junggi Yoon

Recent work [1] produced an efficient method for computing Weil-Petersson volumes using two ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that appear naturally in double scaled random matrix models. One is the defining string equation of the model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Wasif Ahmed , Clifford V. Johnson , Krishan Saraswat

We propose the three-dimensional bulk dual for Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled with CFT$_2$ bath based on partial reduction. The bulk dual is classical AdS gravity with a defect brane which has small fluctuation in transverse direction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Feiyu Deng , Yu-Sen An , Yang Zhou

We study the perturbative series associated to bi-local correlators in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, for positive weight $\lambda$ of the matter CFT operators. Starting from the known exact expression, derived by CFT and gauge theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-18 Luca Griguolo , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

The duality of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity and a double scaled matrix integral has led to studies of the canonical spectral form factor (SFF) in the so called $\tau-$scaled limit of large times, $t \to \infty$, and fixed temperature in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Torsten Weber , Jarod Tall , Fabian Haneder , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

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

In this letter, we show that Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity can be naturally realized in the Karch-Randall braneworld. Notably the role of the dilaton in JT gravity is played by the radion in a suitably orbifolded version of the setup. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Hao Geng , Andreas Karch , Carlos Perez-Pardavila , Suvrat Raju , Lisa Randall , Marcos Riojas , Sanjit Shashi

Generalizing previous results for $N=0$ and $N=1$, we analyze $N=2$ JT supergravity on asymptotically AdS${}_2$ spaces with arbitrary topology and show that this theory of gravity is dual, in a holographic sense, to a certain random matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Gustavo J. Turiaci , Edward Witten

A number of supersymmetric Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity theories are known to be described (in the Euclidean path integral formulation) by double-scaled random matrix models. Such matrix models can be characterized using a certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-11 Clifford V. Johnson , Maciej Kolanowski