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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

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

We derive explicit expressions for a specific subclass of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity bilocal correlators, corresponding to degenerate Virasoro representations. On the disk, these degenerate correlators are structurally simple, and they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-04 Thomas G. Mertens

With non-perturbative de Sitter gravity and holography in mind, we deduce the genus expansion of de Sitter Jackiw-Teitelboim (dS JT) gravity. We find that this simple model of quantum cosmology has an effective string coupling which is pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

We investigate the nonperturbative structure of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity at finite cutoff, as given by its proposed formulation in terms of a $T\bar{T}$-deformed Schwarzian quantum mechanics. Our starting point is a careful computation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Luca Griguolo , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

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

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

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

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 two-dimensional Liouville gravity and minimal string theory on spaces with fixed length boundaries. We find explicit formulas describing the gravitational dressing of bulk and boundary correlators in the disk. Their structure has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-15 Thomas G. Mertens , Gustavo J. Turiaci

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 study the $T\bar T$ deformation on multiquantum mechanical systems. By introducing dynamical coordinate transformation, we reformulate the one-dimensional $T\bar T$ deformation of generic quantum mechanical systems, which is consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-29 Song He , Zhuo-Yu Xian

We study the duality between JT gravity and the double-scaled matrix model including their respective deformations. For these deformed theories we relate the thermal partition function to the generating function of topological gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Stefan Forste , Hans Jockers , Joshua Kames-King , Alexandros Kanargias

In this paper we study a connection between Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity on two-dimensional anti de-Sitter spaces and a semiclassical limit of $c<1$ two-dimensional string theory. The world-sheet theory of the latter consists of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Kenta Suzuki , Tadashi Takayanagi

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

It has been recently discovered that the $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$ deformation is closely-related to Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. At classical level, the introduction of this perturbation induces an interaction between the stress-energy tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Riccardo Conti , Stefano Negro , Roberto Tateo

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 discuss some classical and quantum properties of 2d gravity models involving metric and a scalar field. Different models are parametrized in terms of a scalar potential. We show that a general Liouville-type model with exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 J. Russo , A. A. Tseytlin

We construct various limits of JT gravity, including Newton-Cartan and Carrollian versions of dilaton gravity in two dimensions as well as a theory on the three-dimensional light cone. In the BF formulation our boundary conditions relate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-07 Daniel Grumiller , Jelle Hartong , Stefan Prohazka , Jakob Salzer

We present a new holographic duality between q-Schwarzian quantum mechanics and Liouville gravity. The q-Schwarzian is a one parameter deformation of the Schwarzian, which is dual to JT gravity and describes the low energy sector of SYK. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Shunyu Yao