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It is known that the $(a,c)$ central charges in four-dimensional CFTs are linear combinations of the three independent OPE coefficients of the stress-tensor three-point function. In this paper, we adopt the holographic approach using AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Yue-Zhou Li , H. Lu , Liang Ma

It was noticed many years ago, in the framework of massless RG flows, that the irrelevant composite operator $T \bar{T}$, built with the components of the energy-momentum tensor, enjoys very special properties in 2D quantum field theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Andrea Cavaglià , Stefano Negro , István M. Szécsényi , Roberto Tateo

I study the entanglement entropy (EE) across a deformed sphere in conformal field theories (CFTs). I show that the sphere (locally) minimizes the universal term in EE among all shapes. In arXiv:1407.7249 it was derived that the sphere is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Márk Mezei

We consider deformation of a generic $d$ dimensional ($d\geq 2$) large-$N$ CFT on a sphere by a spin-0 operator which is bilinear in the components of the stress tensor. Such a deformation has been proposed to be holographically dual to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-26 Aritra Banerjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Soumangsu Chakraborty

Several calculations of 2- and 3-point correlation functions in the deformed theory are presented. The central charge in the Lunin-Maldacena gravity dual is shown to be independent of the deformation parameter. Calculations show that 2- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Z. Freedman , Umut Gursoy

String theory on AdS$_3$ with NS-NS fluxes admits a solvable irrelevant deformation which is close to the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of the dual CFT$_2$. This consists of deforming the worldsheet action, namely the action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Gaston Giribet , Julio Oliva , Ricardo Stuardo

This paper is our contribution to the study of $T\bar{T}$-deformations. We consider the effect of $T\bar{T}$-deformation of conformal field theories in perturbation theory. We use dimensional regularization scheme to perturbatively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Daniil Menskoy

Turning on the $T\bar{T}$-deformation in a two-dimensional CFT provides a unique window to study explicitly how non-local features arise in the UV as a result of the deformation. A sharp signature is the dynamical emergence of an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Wen-Xin Lai , Huajia Wang , Yongjiang Xu

We study the free energy of four-dimensional CFTs on deformed spheres. For generic nonsupersymmetric CFTs only the coefficient of the logarithmic divergence in the free energy is physical, which is an extremum for the round sphere. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Joseph A. Minahan , Usman Naseer , Charles Thull

This review explores recent advances in the theory of $T\bar{T}$ deformation, an irrelevant yet solvable deformation of quantum field theories defined via the quadratic form of the energy-momentum tensor. It addresses classical and quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Song He , Yi Li , Hao Ouyang , Yuan Sun

In this paper, we derive a $T\bar{T}$ deformed soft graviton theorem in the context of celestial holography. As a concrete example, it illustrates that a two-dimensional irrelevant deformation can be applied to a four-dimensional theory at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-25 Song He , Pujian Mao , Xin-Cheng Mao

Motivated by the recent work on $T\bar{T}$-type deformations of 2D CFTs, a especial class of single-trace deformations of AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence has been investigated. From the worldsheet perspective, this corresponds to a marginal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Gaston Giribet , Matias Leoni

It has recently been proposed that Zamoldchikov's $T \bar{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional CFTs describes the holographic theory dual to AdS$_3$ at finite radius. In this note we use the Gauss-Codazzi form of the Einstein equations to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-29 Marika Taylor

The $T \overline{T}$ operator provides a universal irrelevant deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theories with remarkable properties, including connections to both string theory and holography beyond $\mathrm{AdS}$ spacetimes. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Christian Ferko

We study the $T\overline{T}$ deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories from a Hamiltonian point of view, focusing on aspects of the theory in Lorentzian signature. Our starting point is a simple rewriting of the spatial integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Jorrit Kruthoff , Onkar Parrikar

We address the problem of computing the tachyon correlation functions in Liouville gravity with generic (non-rational) matter central charge c<1. We consider two variants of the theory. The first is the conventional one in which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. K. Kostov , V. B. Petkova

We introduce a new two-dimensional string theory defined by coupling two copies of Liouville CFT with complex central charge $c=13\pm i \lambda$ on the worldsheet. This string theory defines a novel, consistent and controllable model of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Scott Collier , Lorenz Eberhardt , Beatrix Mühlmann , Victor A. Rodriguez

We exhibit a simple class of exactly marginal "double-trace" deformations of two dimensional CFTs which have AdS_3 duals, in which the deformation is given by a product of left and right-moving U(1) currents. In this special case the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Ofer Aharony , Micha Berkooz , Eva Silverstein

In this paper, we shed new light onto $T\bar{T}$-deformations by engineering them on 2D surface defects, supporting chiral and antichiral CFT's, in a 4D Chern-Simons bulk. This approach is motivated by various connections between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Victor Py

$J\bar T$-deformed CFTs provide an interesting example of non-local, yet UV-complete two-dimensional QFTs that are entirely solvable. They have been recently shown to possess an infinite set of symmetries, which are a continuous deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Monica Guica