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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 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 demonstrate how the two-dimensional gravity emerges within ``GR from RG'' program initiated in \cite{Adami:2025pqr, Sheikh-Jabbari:2026uol}. To achieve this, we consider a generic 2d CFT with a 3d holographic description, which we assume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , V. Taghiloo

We study the application of AdS/CFT duality to longitudinal boost invariant Bjorken expansion of QCD matter produced in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. As the exact (1+4)-dimensional bulk solutions for the (1+3)-dimensional boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Kajantie , Jorma Louko , T. Tahkokallio

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 study the theory of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with generalized dilaton potential on Euclidean two-dimensional negatively curved backgrounds. The effect of the generalized dilaton potential is to induce a conical defect on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Eric Mefford , Kenta Suzuki

In Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, which is dual to a random matrix ensemble, the annealed entropy differs from the quenched entropy at low temperatures and goes negative. However, computing the quenched entropy in JT gravity requires a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Stefano Antonini , Luca V. Iliesiu , Pratik Rath , Patrick Tran

The gravitational part of the holographic dual to the SYK model has been conjectured to be Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. In this paper we construct an AdS2 background in N = (2,2) JT gravity and show that the gravitational dynamics are -…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Stefan Forste , Joshua Kames-King , Max Wiesner

We investigate a family of models described by two holographic CFT$_2$s coupled along a shared interface. The bulk dual geometry consists of two AdS$_3$ spacetimes truncated by a shared Karch-Randall end-of-the-world (EOW) brane. A lower…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-10 Mir Afrasiar , Debarshi Basu , Ashish Chandra , Vinayak Raj , Gautam Sengupta

Freudenthal duality (F-duality), an anti-involution of charge vectors keep the entropy and attractor solutions invariant for an extremal supersymmetric black hole. In this paper, we analyze the effect of F-duality on the entropy of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-22 Arghya Chattopadhyay , Taniya Mandal

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 investigate structural aspects of JT gravity through its BF description. In particular, we provide evidence that JT gravity should be thought of as (a coset of) the noncompact subsemigroup SL$^+$(2,R) BF theory. We highlight physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-23 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Henri Verschelde

An open question in AdS/CFT is how to reconstruct semiclassical bulk operators precisely enough that non-perturbative quantum effects can be computed. We propose a set of physically-motivated requirements for such a reconstruction map, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Chris Akers , Andrew Lucas , Amit Vikram

We show that the partition function of quantum Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, including topological fluctuations, is equivalent to the partition function of a Maass-Laplace operator of large -- imaginary -- weight acting on non-compact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-26 Antonio M. García-García , Salomón Zacarías

The low-energy behavior of near-extremal black holes can be understood from the near-horizon AdS_2 region. In turn, this region is effectively described by using Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to Yang-Mills theory through the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-16 Luca V. Iliesiu

We explore the complexity equals volume proposal for planar black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime in 2+1 dimensions, with an end of the world (ETW) brane behind the horizon. We allow for the possibility of intrinsic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-03 Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez , Ben Craps , Juan Hernandez , Mikhail Khramtsov , Maria Knysh , Ashish Shukla

In this paper we analyse and discuss 2D Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity coupled to primary fermion fields in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes. We get a particular solution of the massless Dirac field outside the extremal black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Chang-Zhong Guo , Wen-Cong Gan , Fu-Wen Shu

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

The interplay between black hole interior dynamics and quantum chaos provides a crucial framework for probing quantum effects in quantum gravity. In this work, we investigate non-perturbative overlaps in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Masamichi Miyaji , Shan-Ming Ruan , Shono Shibuya , Kazuyoshi Yano

Using a definition of the bulk frame within 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, we go into the bulk from the Schwarzian boundary. Including the path integral over the Schwarzian degrees of freedom, we discuss the quantum gravitational Unruh…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-04 Thomas G. Mertens