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We study a constructive gravitational dual of two-dimensional $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories (CFTs) grounded in their two-dimensional gravity description. This framework can be viewed as a Randall-Sundrum-type braneworld,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Shinji Hirano , Vinayak Raj

We present a semiclassical framework in which stress-tensor deformations of a quantum field theory (QFT) reorganize into a gravitational action evaluated at a metric saddle. The deformed partition function can be written as a gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Yun-Ze Li , Yunfei Xie , Song He

We study the relationship between TsT transformations, marginal deformations of string theory on AdS$_3$ backgrounds, and irrelevant deformations of 2d CFTs. We show that TsT transformations of NS-NS backgrounds correspond to instantaneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 Luis Apolo , Stephane Detournay , Wei Song

We develop a two-dimensional gravity path integral formulation of the $T \bar T + \Lambda_2$ deformation of quantum field theory. This provides an exactly solvable generalization of the pure $T \bar T$ deformation that is relevant for de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Gonzalo Torroba

The surface/state correspondence suggests that the bulk co-dimensional two surface could be dual to the quantum state in the holographic conformal field theory(CFT). Inspired by the cutoff-AdS/$T\overline{T}$-deformed-CFT correspondence, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Bin Chen , Lin Chen , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We study $T\bar T$ deformations of 2d CFTs with periodic boundary conditions. We relate these systems to string models on $\mathbb{R}\times {S}^1\times{\cal M}$, where $\cal M$ is the target space of a 2d CFT. The string model in the light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-13 George Jorjadze , Stefan Theisen

In this paper, we continue the study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation in $d=1$ quantum mechanical systems and propose possible analogues of $J\bar{T}$ deformation and deformation by a general linear combination of $T\bar{T}$ and $J\bar{T}$ in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Soumangsu Chakraborty , Amiya Mishra

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

We show the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theories is equivalent to replacing the spacetime dependence of the fields with dependence on the indices of infinitely large matrices. We show how this correspondence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Vasudev Shyam , Yigit Yargic

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 consider the out-of-equilibrium transport in $T\bar{T}$-deformed (1+1)-dimension conformal field theories (CFTs). The theories admit two disparate approaches, integrability and holography, which we make full use of in order to compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-23 Marko Medenjak , Giuseppe Policastro , Takato Yoshimura

A recent proposal relates two dimensional holographic conformal field theories deformed by the integrable $T\bar{T}$ flow to AdS$_3$ with a finite radial cutoff. We investigate this proposal by studying perturbative correlation functions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-06 Per Kraus , Junyu Liu , Donald Marolf

It has been recently shown that the deformation of an arbitrary two-dimensional conformal field theory by the composite irrelevant operator $T \bar T$, built from the components of the stress tensor, is solvable; in particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Monica Guica

We study the $T\bar T$ deformation using its formulation as a CFT coupled to two-dimensional dynamical gravity. Working within the BRST formalism, we apply the intertwiner construction of arXiv:2411.08865 to obtain a unitary "dressing" map…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Elia de Sabbata , Pietro Antonio Grassi , Massimo Porrati

We revisit the results of Zamolodchikov and others on the deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theory by the determinant $\det T$ of the stress tensor, commonly referred to as $T\overline T$. Infinitesimally this is equivalent to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-02 John Cardy

We explain how the spacetime diffeomorphism in the classical bosonic closed string field theory (SFT) is represented as $L_\infty$ gauge transformations in weakly curved backgrounds. In particular, we demonstrate the explicit map between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Ben Mazel , Charles Wang , Xi Yin

The $T\bar T$ deformation of a conformal field theory has a dual description as a cutoff $AdS_3$ spacetime, at least at the level of pure 3d gravity. We generalize this deformation in such a way that it builds up a patch of bulk $dS_3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-21 Victor Gorbenko , Eva Silverstein , Gonzalo Torroba

One of the few cases of AdS/CFT where both sides of the duality are under good control relates tensionless $k=1$ strings on AdS$_3$ to a two-dimensional symmetric product CFT. Building on prior observations, we propose an exact duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Andrea Dei , Bob Knighton , Kiarash Naderi , Savdeep Sethi

We use the variational principle approach to derive the large $N$ holographic dictionary for two-dimensional $T\bar T$-deformed CFTs, for both signs of the deformation parameter. The resulting dual gravitational theory has mixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Monica Guica , Ruben Monten

Double Field Theory (DFT) is a low-energy effective theory of a manifestly $O(D,D)$ invariant formulation of the closed string theory when toroidally compactified dimensions are present. The theory is based on a doubled spacetime structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Chen-Te Ma , Franco Pezzella