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We consider gravitational perturbations of 2D dilaton gravity systems and show that these can be recast into $T\bar{T}$-deformations (at least) under certain conditions, where $T$ means the energy-momentum tensor of the matter field coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-04 Takaaki Ishii , Suguru Okumura , Jun-ichi Sakamoto , Kentaroh Yoshida

Recent work has shown that certain deformations of the scalar potential in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity can be written as double-scaled matrix models. However, some of the deformations exhibit an apparent breakdown of unitarity in the form of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-07 Clifford V. Johnson , Felipe Rosso

We study two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity on the disk topology by using a BF gauge theory in the presence of a boundary term. The system can be equivalently written in a supersymmetric way by introducing auxiliary gauginos and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-06 Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

We discuss JT gravity in AdS and dS space in the second order formalism. For the pure dS JT theory without matter, we show that the path integral gives rise in general to the Hartle-Hawking wave function which describes an arbitrary number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Upamanyu Moitra , Sunil Kumar Sake , Sandip P. Trivedi

It is well known that Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity posses the simplest theory on 2-dimensional gravity. The model has been fruitfully studied in recent years. In the present work, we investigate exact solutions for both JT and deformed JT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-24 Davood Momeni , Phongpichit Channuie

We review recent developments in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. This is a simple solvable model of quantum gravity in two dimensions (that arises e.g. from the s-wave sector of higher dimensional gravity systems with spherical symmetry).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Thomas G. Mertens , Gustavo J. Turiaci

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 propose a microscopic definition of finite cut-off JT quantum gravity on the disk, both in the discretized and in the continuum points of view. The discretized formulation involves a new model of so-called self-overlapping random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Frank Ferrari

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

We consider an orthogonal polynomial formulation of the double scaling limit of multicritical matrix models in the $\beta=1$ Dyson-Wigner class. They capture the physics of 2D quantum gravity coupled to minimal matter on unorientable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-31 Wasif Ahmed , Ashton Lowenstein

We formulate the path integral for Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity in the second order formalism working directly with the metric and the dilaton. We consider the theory both in Anti-de Sitter(AdS) and de Sitter space(dS) and analyze the path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-17 Upamanyu Moitra , Sunil Kumar Sake , Sandip P. Trivedi

We propose that a class of new topologies, for which there is no classical solution, should be included in the path integral of three-dimensional pure gravity, and that their inclusion solves pathological negativities in the spectrum,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Henry Maxfield , Gustavo J. Turiaci

The duality of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity and a double scaled matrix integral has led to studies of the canonical spectral form factor (SFF) in the so called $\tau-$scaled limit of large times, $t \to \infty$, and fixed temperature in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Torsten Weber , Jarod Tall , Fabian Haneder , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

Generalizing previous results for $N=0$ and $N=1$, we analyze $N=2$ JT supergravity on asymptotically AdS${}_2$ spaces with arbitrary topology and show that this theory of gravity is dual, in a holographic sense, to a certain random matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Gustavo J. Turiaci , Edward Witten

We present non- and ultra-relativistic Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity as metric BF theories based on the extended Newton-Hooke and extended AdS Carroll superalgebras in two spacetime dimensions, respectively. The extended Newton-Hooke…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-03 Lucrezia Ravera , Utku Zorba

The (bosonic) Virasoro minimal string, which relates worldsheet string theory to a deformation of the JT gravity matrix model, provides an interesting example of a tractable matrix/string duality. We explore its $\mathcal{N} =1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Mukund Rangamani , Jianming Zheng

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

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

Recently, it has been found that JT gravity, which is a two-dimensional theory with bulk action $ -\frac{1}{2}\int {\mathrm d}^2x \sqrt g\phi(R+2)$, is dual to a matrix model, that is, a random ensemble of quantum systems rather than a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Edward Witten

We develop the gauge theory formulation of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Jackiw-Teitelboim supergravity in terms of the underlying $\text{OSp}(1|2, \mathbb{R})$ supergroup, focusing on boundary dynamics and the exact structure of gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Yale Fan , Thomas G. Mertens