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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 propose a microscopic definition of finite cut-off JT quantum gravity on the disk, both in the discretized and in the continuum points of view. The discretized formulation involves a new model of so-called self-overlapping random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Frank Ferrari

We develop the gauge theory formulation of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Jackiw-Teitelboim supergravity in terms of the underlying $\text{OSp}(1|2, \mathbb{R})$ supergroup, focusing on boundary dynamics and the exact structure of gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Yale Fan , Thomas G. Mertens

In the semiclassical approximation to JT gravity, we find two-point and four-point correlators of heavy operators. To do so, we introduce a massive particle in the bulk and compute its action with gravitational backreaction. In Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Ksenia Bulycheva

Two derivative Jackiw Teitelboim gravity theory captures the near horizon dynamics of higher dimensional near extremal black holes, which is governed by a Schwarzian action at the boundary in the near horizon region. The partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Nabamita Banerjee , Taniya Mandal , Arnab Rudra , Muktajyoti Saha

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

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

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

The study of 2-dimensional surfaces of constant curvature constitutes a beautiful branch of geometry with well-documented ties to the mathematical physics of integrable systems. A lesser known, but equally fascinating, fact is its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 Jeff Murugan

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

We study the gravitational edge mode of the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity and its $sl(2,\mathbb{R})$ BF theory description with the asymptotic AdS$_2$ boundary condition. We revisit the derivation of the Schwarzian theory from the wiggling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-11 Euihun Joung , Prithvi Narayan , Junggi Yoon

We obtain an action for a generalized conformal mechanics (GCM) coupled to Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity from a double scaling limit of the motion of a charged massive particle in the near-horizon geometry of a near-extremal spherical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Archi Banerjee , Tanay Kibe , Martín Molina , Ayan Mukhopadhyay

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 provide a holographic perspective on correlation functions in Schwarzian quantum mechanics, as boundary-anchored Wilson line correlators in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. We first study compact groups and identify the diagrammatic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-21 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Henri Verschelde

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 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 give a prescription for minimally coupling massive matter to JT gravity with either sign of cosmological constant directly in its formulation as a topological BF theory. This coupling takes the form of a `Wilson spool,' originally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Jackson R. Fliss

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

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 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