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We review recent developments in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. This is a simple solvable model of quantum gravity in two dimensions (that arises e.g. from the s-wave sector of higher dimensional gravity systems with spherical symmetry).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Thomas G. Mertens , Gustavo J. Turiaci

We construct 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity in the framework of symmetric teleparallel gravity based on a non-metricity tensor. In symmetric teleparallel gravity, we often use the scalar quantity $Q$ composed of the bilinear terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Shin'ichi Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

The low-energy behavior of near-extremal black holes can be understood from the near-horizon AdS_2 region. In turn, this region is effectively described by using Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to Yang-Mills theory through the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-16 Luca V. Iliesiu

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 analyze deformations of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity by adding a gas of defects, equivalent to changing the dilaton potential. We compute the Euclidean partition function in a topological expansion and find that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Felipe Rosso , Gustavo J. Turiaci

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 give further evidence that the matrix-tensor model studied in \cite{belin2023} is dual to AdS$_{3}$ gravity including the sum over topologies. This provides a 3D version of the duality between JT gravity and an ensemble of random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Daniel L. Jafferis , Liza Rozenberg , Gabriel Wong

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

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

We classify the possible boundary conditions in JT gravity and discuss their exact quantization. Each boundary condition that we study will reveal new features in JT gravity related to its matrix integral interpretation, its factorization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-13 Akash Goel , Luca V. Iliesiu , Jorrit Kruthoff , Zhenbin Yang

We investigate structural aspects of JT gravity through its BF description. In particular, we provide evidence that JT gravity should be thought of as (a coset of) the noncompact subsemigroup SL$^+$(2,R) BF theory. We highlight physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-23 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Henri Verschelde

We formulate the path integral for Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity in the second order formalism working directly with the metric and the dilaton. We consider the theory both in Anti-de Sitter(AdS) and de Sitter space(dS) and analyze the path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-17 Upamanyu Moitra , Sunil Kumar Sake , Sandip P. Trivedi

We study closed universes in simple models of two dimensional gravity, such as Jackiw-Teiteilboim (JT) gravity coupled to matter, and a toy topological model that captures the key features of the former. We find there is a stark contrast,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Mykhaylo Usatyuk , Zi-Yue Wang , Ying Zhao

The Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundaries are known to be given by polynomials in the boundary lengths. These polynomials satisfy Mirzakhani's recursion formula, which fits into the general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Timothy Budd , Bart Zonneveld

We find models of two-dimensional gravity that resolve the factorization puzzle and have a discrete spectrum, whilst retaining a semiclassical description. A novelty of these models is that they contain non-trivially correlated spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Andreas Blommaert , Luca V. Iliesiu , Jorrit Kruthoff

Recently, it has been found that JT gravity, which is a two-dimensional theory with bulk action $ -\frac{1}{2}\int {\mathrm d}^2x \sqrt g\phi(R+2)$, is dual to a matrix model, that is, a random ensemble of quantum systems rather than a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Edward Witten

In Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, the naive Schwarzian quantum mechanics leads to a continuous bulk spectrum, in apparent contradiction with the finite entropy of the black hole, which requires a discrete spectrum with level spacing of order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Dongsu Bak , Chanju Kim , Sang-Heon Yi

We study Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov-Teschner (FZZT) branes in Witten-Kontsevich topological gravity, which includes Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity as a special case. Adding FZZT branes to topological gravity corresponds to inserting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 Kazumi Okuyama , Kazuhiro Sakai

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

We develop a fully discrete and non-perturbative formulation of two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity within the BF framework. Using group-valued holonomies and Lie-algebra--valued dilatons, the bulk theory is shown to be purely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 H. T. Özer , Aytül Filiz