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In this paper, we investigate a critical behavior of JT gravity, a model of two-dimensional quantum gravity on constant negatively curved spacetimes. Our approach involves using techniques from random maps to investigate the generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-25 Alicia Castro

We construct a massive spin-2 theory in 2+1 dimensions that is immune to the bulk-boundary unitarity conflict in anti-de Sitter space and hence amenable to holography. The theory is an extension of Topologically Massive Gravity, just like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Bayram Tekin

Scalar QFT on the boundary $\Im^+$ at null infinity of a general asymptotically flat 4D spacetime is constructed using the algebraic approach based on Weyl algebra associated to a BMS-invariant symplectic form. The constructed theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Dappiaggi , V. Moretti , N. Pinamonti

BFSS proposed that asymptotically flat M-theory is dual to a large $N$ limit of the matrix quantum mechanics describing $N$ nonrelativistic D0-branes. Recent insights on the soft symmetries of any quantum theory of gravity in asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Noah Miller , Andrew Strominger , Adam Tropper , Tianli Wang

A path integral in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is given by integrating over the volume of the moduli of Riemann surfaces with boundaries, known as the "Weil-Petersson volume," together with integrals over wiggles along the boundaries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-14 Yusuke Kimura

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 formally discuss the post-Minkowskian limit of $f(R)$-gravity without adopting conformal transformations but developing all the calculations in the original Jordan frame. It is shown that such an approach gives rise, in general, together…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Capozziello , A. Stabile , A. Troisi

Surface-charge algebra associated with BMS$_4$ symmetry on the null infinity of asymptotically flat spacetime is studied via the Hamiltonian framework. A coordinate system, where boundaries of constant-time hypersurfaces cross the null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Ippei Fujisawa , Ryuichi Nakayama

We propose a new set of BMS charges at null infinity, characterized by a super-translation flux that contains only the `hard' term. This is achieved with a specific corner improvement of the symplectic 2-form, and we spell the conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-21 Antoine Rignon-Bret , Simone Speziale

In this paper we perform the Hamiltonian reduction of the action for three-dimensional Einstein gravity with vanishing cosmological constant using the Chern-Simons formulation and Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) boundary conditions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Wout Merbis , Max Riegler

We show that for a unitary modular invariant 2D CFT with central charge $c>1$ and having a nonzero twist gap in the spectrum of Virasoro primaries, for sufficiently large spin $J$, there always exist spin-$J$ operators with twist falling in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Sridip Pal , Jiaxin Qiao

In this note we study the $1+1$ dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity in Lorentzian signature, explicitly constructing the gauge-invariant classical phase space and the quantum Hilbert space and Hamiltonian. We also semiclassically compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-11 Daniel Harlow , Daniel Jafferis

We present a generally-covariant and parity-invariant "zwei-dreibein" action for gravity in three space-time dimensions that propagates two massive spin-2 modes, unitarily, and we use Hamiltonian methods to confirm the absence of unphysical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-18 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Sjoerd de Haan , Olaf Hohm , Wout Merbis , Paul K. Townsend

In this paper it is introduced and studied an alternative theory of gravitation in flat Minkowski space. Using an antisymmetric tensor, which is analogous to the tensor of electromagnetic field, a non-linear connection is introduced. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-17 Kostadin Trencevski , Emilija G. Celakoska , Vladimir Balan

In bosonic JT gravity, minimally coupled to bulk matter, there exists a single, delta-function-normalisable state in each $SL(2,R)$ representation of the matter QFT for any pair of positive energies $E_L, E_R$ at the left and right…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Geoff Penington , Edward Witten

An enhanced version of the conformal BMS$_{3}$ algebra is presented. It is shown to emerge from the asymptotic structure of an extension of conformal gravity in 3D by Pope and Townsend that consistently accommodates an additional spin-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Oscar Fuentealba , Iva Lovrekovic , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

In this thesis, the symmetry structure of gravitational theories at null infinity is studied further, in the case of pure gravity in four dimensions and also in the case of Einstein-Yang-Mills theory in $d$ dimensions with and without a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-11 Pierre-Henry Lambert

We study quantum cosmology of the $2D$ Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity with $\Lambda>0$ and calculate the Hartle-Hawking (HH) wave function for this model in the minisuperspace framework. Our approach is guided by the observation that the JT…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Georgios Fanaras , Alexander Vilenkin

It is well-known that the partition function of the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is obtained by an integral transformation of volumes of moduli spaces for Riemann surfaces, also known as the Weil-Petersson volumes. This fact enables us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Takaki Matsumoto , Kazumi Okuyama

We show that the asymptotic charges associated with Lorentz symmetries on past and future null infinity match in the limit to spatial infinity in a class of asymptotically-flat spacetimes. These are spacetimes that obey the Ashtekar-Hansen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Kartik Prabhu , Ibrahim Shehzad