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The formulation of two-dimensional quantum gravity at finite cutoff remains an open problem. We revisit this question in JT gravity from two perspectives: the closed-channel bulk path integral and the path integral over boundary curves.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Luca Griguolo , Jacopo Papalini , Lorenzo Russo , Domenico Seminara

We study non-Gaussian bulk 2d CFTs in AdS$_2$ using boundary CFT techniques and recent results in JT/Schwarzian gravity. We highlight the constraints on the operator content of a theory imposed by the boundary conditions by examining the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-12 Cameron V. Cogburn

We determine explicit expressions for the continuous two-sided gravitational wavefunctions in supersymmetric versions of JT gravity, focusing mainly on $\mathcal{N}=2$ JT supergravity. Our approach is based on representation theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Andreas Belaey , Francesca Mariani , Thomas G. Mertens

We study quantum JT gravity at finite cutoff using a mapping to the statistical mechanics of a self-avoiding loop in hyperbolic space, with positive pressure and fixed length. The semiclassical limit (small $G_N$) corresponds to large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Douglas Stanford , Zhenbin Yang

We study a symmetry-reduced sector of $AdS_3/\mathbb Z_2$ gravity formulated as an $SO(2,2)$ Chern--Simons theory on a 3D-manifold with toroidal boundary. The reduction is implemented by requiring a globally defined symmetry and restricting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Goffredo Chirco , Lucio Vacchiano , Patrizia Vitale

We provide a non conformal generalization of the Comp\`ere-Song-Strominger (CSS) boundary conditions for AdS$_3$ gravity that breaks the $\widehat u(1)$ Kac-Moody-Virasoro symmetry to two $u(1)$s. The holographic dual specified by the new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-18 Pankaj Chaturvedi , Ioannis Papadimitriou , Wei Song , Boyang Yu

We study canonical quantization of Jackiw-Teibelboim (JT) gravity coupled to a massless scalar field. We provide concrete expressions of matter SL(2,{\,\bf R}) charges and the boundary matter operators in terms of the creation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Dongsu Bak , Chanju Kim , Sang-Heon Yi

In canonical quantum gravity, when space is a compact manifold with boundary there is a Hamiltonian given by an integral over the boundary. Here we compute the action of this `boundary Hamiltonian' on observables corresponding to open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 John Baez , Javier P. Muniain , Dardo Piriz

We provide an account of the issue of Gibbons-Hawking-York-like boundary terms for a gravity theory defined on a Riemman-Cartan spacetime. We further discuss different criteria for introducing boundary terms in some familiar first-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Dušan Đorđević , Dragoljub Gočanin

We study the problem of boundary terms and boundary conditions for Chern-Simons gravity in five dimensions. We show that under reasonable boundary conditions one finds an effective field theory at the four-dimensional boundary described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Maximo Banados

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 study the asymptotic dynamics of 3D gravity with Rindler boundary conditions both in flat and AdS spacetimes. We do this by using the angular quantization and Hamiltonian reduction of the action to the Wess-Zumino-Witten theory on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Hamid R. Afshar , Narges Aghamir

We construct postcarrollian gravity models in two, three, and four spacetime dimensions by applying algebraic expansion methods. As a byproduct, we present the most general postcarrollian 2d dilaton gravity model, construct its solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-24 Florian Ecker , Daniel Grumiller , Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo

Recently proposed duality relates the critical level limit $\hat{k} \to -2$ of $SU(2)_{\hat{k}}$ WZW models to a classical three-dimensional Einstein gravity on a sphere. In this paper, we propose a dimensional reduced version of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Kenta Suzuki , Yusuke Taki

An explicit, geometric description of the first-class constraints and their Poisson brackets for gravity in the Palatini-Cartan formalism (in space-time dimension greater than three) is given. The corresponding Batalin- Fradkin-Vilkovisky…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Giovanni Canepa , Alberto S. Cattaneo , Michele Schiavina

We report a holographic study of a two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory with the Dirichlet boundary condition for the cases of non-vanishing and vanishing cosmological constants. Our result shows that the boundary theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Su-Kuan Chu , Chen-Te Ma , Chih-Hung Wu

We revisit the gravity path integral formalism of JT gravity. We explain how to gauge fix the path integral in the presence of asymptotic boundaries and conical defects, and resolve an ambiguity regarding the dilaton gravity operator that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-26 Guanda Lin , Mykhaylo Usatyuk

The boundary terms in the Hamiltonian, in the presence of horizons, are carefully analyzed in a simple 2D theory admitting AdS black holes. The agreement between the euclidean approach and Cardy's formula is obtained modulo certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Caldarelli , G. Catelani , L. Vanzo

The description of the $T\bar{T}$ deformation in terms of two-dimensional gravity is analyzed from the Hamiltonian point of view, in a manner analogous to the ADM description of general relativity. We find that the Hamiltonian constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Florencia Benítez , Guzmán Hernández-Chifflet , Esteban Mato

We study the Carrollian limit of the (general) quadratic gravity in four dimensions. We find that in order for the Carrollian theory to be a modification of the Carrollian limit of general relativity, the parameters in the action must…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Poula Tadros , Ivan Kolář