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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

We compute the partition function of $2D$ Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity at finite cutoff in two ways: (i) via an exact evaluation of the Wheeler-DeWitt wave-functional in radial quantization and (ii) through a direct computation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-17 Luca V. Iliesiu , Jorrit Kruthoff , Gustavo J. Turiaci , Herman Verlinde

Aspects of the low energy physics of certain Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and supergravity theories are explored, using their recently presented non-perturbative description in terms of minimal string models. This regime necessarily involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Clifford V. Johnson

In this work, we show that a gauge-theoretic description of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity naturally yields a Henneaux-Teitelboim (HT) unimodular gravity via a central extension of its isometry group, valid for both flat and curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Bruno Alexandre , Altay Etkin , Farbod-Sayyed Rassouli

The quantum gravity path integral involves a sum over topologies that invites comparisons to worldsheet string theory and to Feynman diagrams of quantum field theory. However, the latter are naturally associated with the non-abelian algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Eduardo Casali , Donald Marolf , Henry Maxfield , Mukund Rangamani

We attempt to understand the CFT$_1$ structure underlying (2+1)D gravity in flat spacetime via dimensional reduction. We observe that under superrotation, the hyperbolic (and dS$_2$) slices of flat spacetime transform to asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-03 Arindam Bhattacharjee , Muktajyoti Saha

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

It is proposed that a family of Jackiw-Teitelboim supergravites, recently discussed in connection with matrix models by Stanford and Witten, can be given a complete definition, to all orders in the topological expansion and beyond, in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Clifford V. Johnson

Recently, it has been argued in [1] that Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity can be naturally realized in the Karch-Randall braneworld in $(2+1)$ dimensions. Using the `complexity=volume' proposal, we studied this model and computed the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Aranya Bhattacharya , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Ayan K. Patra

We present the exact solution for the scattering problem in the flat space Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity coupled to an arbitrary quantum field theory. JT gravity results in a gravitational dressing of field theoretical scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Sergei Dubovsky , Victor Gorbenko , Mehrdad Mirbabayi

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

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 shown how to non-perturbatively define a random matrix model that captures key physics of ${\cal N}{=}2$ Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity, going well beyond the perturbative topological expansion defined recently by Turiaci and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Clifford V. Johnson

We propose a definition for the Lorentzian Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity path integral that includes Lorentzian topology changing configurations. The construction is inspired by the bosonic string genus expansion on singular Lorentzian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Mykhaylo Usatyuk

We introduce the colored version of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity which is the two-dimensional dilaton gravity model with matrix-valued fields. It is straightforwardly formulated in terms of BF action with $su(N,N)$ gauge algebra so that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 K. B. Alkalaev , Euihun Joung , Junggi Yoon

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

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

A number of supersymmetric Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity theories are known to be described (in the Euclidean path integral formulation) by double-scaled random matrix models. Such matrix models can be characterized using a certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-11 Clifford V. Johnson , Maciej Kolanowski

We study Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with dynamical end of the world branes in asymptotically nearly AdS$_2$ spacetimes. We quantize this theory in Lorentz signature, and compute the Euclidean path integral summing over topologies including…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Ping Gao , Daniel Louis Jafferis , David K. Kolchmeyer

We propose an exact quantization of two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity by formulating the JT gravity theory as a 2D gauge theory placed in the presence of a loop defect. The gauge group is a certain central extension of $PSL(2,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Luca V. Iliesiu , Silviu S. Pufu , Herman Verlinde , Yifan Wang