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The gravitational path integral on $S^2 \times S^2$ can be interpreted either as evaluating a contribution to the norm of the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction conditional on spatial $S^1 \times S^2$ topology, or the pair creation rate of black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Xiaoyi Shi , Gustavo J. Turiaci

We consider the most general set of integrable deformations extending the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional relativistic QFTs. They are CDD deformations of the theory's factorised S-matrix related to the higher-spin conserved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-27 Guzmán Hernández-Chifflet , Stefano Negro , Alessandro Sfondrini

We initiate the study of $T\bar T$-like irrelevant solvable deformations in quantum field theory with boundaries and defects. For this purpose, we employ a general formalism developed in the context of spin chains, which allows us to derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Yunfeng Jiang , Florian Loebbert , De-liang Zhong

We give a rigorous definition of sine dilaton gravity in terms of the worldsheet theory of the complex Liouville string arXiv:2409.17246. The latter has a known exact solution that we leverage to explore the gravitational path integral of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Scott Collier , Lorenz Eberhardt , Beatrix Mühlmann

The problem of gravitational fluctuations confined inside a finite cutoff at radius $r=r_c$ outside the horizon in a general class of black hole geometries is considered. Consistent boundary conditions at both the cutoff surface and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 Irene Bredberg , Cynthia Keeler , Vyacheslav Lysov , Andrew Strominger

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 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

Recent work by Zamolodchikov and others has uncovered a solvable irrelevant deformation of general 2D CFTs, defined by turning on the dimension 4 operator $T \bar T$, the product of the left- and right-moving stress tensor. We propose that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-29 Lauren McGough , Márk Mezei , Herman Verlinde

We review some recent results concerning the Hartle--Hawking wavefunction of the universe. We focus on pure Einstein theory of gravity in the presence of a positive cosmological constant. We carefully implement the gauge-fixing procedure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Hervé Partouche , Nicolaos Toumbas , Balthazar de Vaulchier

Paths of particles, emitted from distributed sources and passing out through slits of two gratings, $G_{0}$ and $G_{1}$, up to detectors, have been computed in details by the path integral method. The slits are represented by Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-20 Valeriy I. Sbitnev

The motion of a particle in the field of dispiration (due to a wedge disclination and a screw dislocation) is studied by path integration. By gauging $SO(2) \otimes T(1)$, first, we derive the metric, curvature, and torsion of the medium of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 Akira Inomata , Georg Junker , James Raynolds

Whenever an It\^o-Wentsel type of formula holds for composition of flows of a certain differential dynamics, there exists locally a decomposition of the corresponding flow according to complementary distributions (or foliations, in the case…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Pedro Catuogno , Lourival Lima , Paulo Ruffino

In this paper, we investigate different thermodynamic properties of $T\bar{T}+J\bar{T}$ deformed Schwarzian theory and its different gravitational perspectives. First, we compute the partition function of $U(1)$ coupled 2D-gravity with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saptaswa Ghosh , Sounak Pal

We study the Euclidean path integral of two-dimensional quantum gravity with positive cosmological constant coupled to conformal matter with large and positive central charge. The problem is considered in a semiclassical expansion about a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Dionysios Anninos , Teresa Bautista , Beatrix Mühlmann

In this paper, we investigate the partition functions of conformal field theories (CFTs) with the $T\bar{T}$ deformation on a torus in terms of the perturbative QFT approach. In Lagrangian path integral formalism, the first- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Song He , Yuan Sun , Yu-Xuan Zhang

In this work, we investigate the partition function of 2d CFT under root-$T\bar{T}$ deformation. We demonstrate that the deformed partition function satisfies a flow equation. At large central charge sector, the deformed partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Miao He

We solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for {\it four}-dimensional Einstein gravity as an expansion in powers of the Planck mass by means of a heat kernel regularization. Our results suggest that in the universe with a very small radius or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 T. Horiguchi , K. Maeda , M. Sakmaoto

We investigate the application of deformation quantization to the system of a free particle evolving within a universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) geometry. This approach allows us to analyze the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Alfonso F. Bobadilla , Jose A. R. Cembranos

We study the Euclidean path integral of higher spin gravity on $S^4$. Based on a one-loop analysis, we are led to a gluing formula expressing the $S^4$ path integral in terms of an underlying $S^3$ path integral. We view the three-sphere as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Dionysios Anninos , Chiara Baracco , Vasileios A. Letsios , Beatrix Mühlmann

We show that the $T \overline{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theory on $\mathrm{AdS}_2$ is well-defined and solvable at the quantum level. Flow equations for the energy spectrum and partition function are derived in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 T. Daniel Brennan , Christian Ferko , Emil Martinec , Savdeep Sethi