English
Related papers

Related papers: JT gravity with matter, generalized ETH, and Rando…

200 papers

We investigate generalized Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, coupling the dilaton field with two scalar matter fields. We obtain the equations of motion of the fields and investigate the linear perturbation of the solutions in general. We study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-05 I. Andrade , D. Bazeia , A. S. Lobão , R. Menezes

Recently, Saad, Shenker and Stanford showed how to define the genus expansion of Jackiw-Teitelboim quantum gravity in terms of a double-scaled Hermitian matrix model. However, the model's non-perturbative sector has fatal instabilities at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Clifford V. Johnson

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 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

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

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

We conjecture a formula for the spectral form factor of a double-scaled matrix integral in the limit of large time, large density of states, and fixed temperature. The formula has a genus expansion with a nonzero radius of convergence. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-24 Phil Saad , Douglas Stanford , Zhenbin Yang , Shunyu Yao

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

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

It was proven recently that JT gravity can be defined as an ensemble of L x L Hermitian matrices. We point out that the eigenvalues of the matrix correspond in JT gravity to FZZT-type boundaries on which spacetimes can end. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-13 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Henri Verschelde

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

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 present a coordinate-free background space construction of Euclidean Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. It is written as a gauge theory that utilizes the Killing vectors and conformal Killing vectors of a hyperboloid embedded in a three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 A. Pinzul , A. Stern , Chuang Xu

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 present a field theory description for the non-perturbative splitting and joining of baby universes in Euclidean Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. We show how the gravitational path integral, defined as a sum over topologies, can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Boris Post , Jeremy van der Heijden , Erik Verlinde

We construct 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity in the framework of symmetric teleparallel gravity based on a non-metricity tensor. In symmetric teleparallel gravity, we often use the scalar quantity $Q$ composed of the bilinear terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Shin'ichi Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

We study aspects of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) quantum gravity in two-dimensional nearly de Sitter (dS) spacetime, as well as pure de Sitter quantum gravity in three dimensions. These are each theories of boundary modes, which include a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen , Alexander Maloney

We propose the three-dimensional bulk dual for Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled with CFT$_2$ bath based on partial reduction. The bulk dual is classical AdS gravity with a defect brane which has small fluctuation in transverse direction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Feiyu Deng , Yu-Sen An , Yang Zhou

We present a gravitational theory that interpolates between JT gravity, and a gravity theory with a fixed boundary Hamiltonian. For this, we consider a matrix integral with the insertion of a Gaussian with variance $\sigma^2$, centered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Andreas Blommaert , Jorrit Kruthoff

We study generic two-dimensional dilaton gravity with a Maxwell field and prove its triviality for constant dilaton boundary conditions, despite of the appearance of a Virasoro algebra with non-zero central charge. We do this by calculating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-04 Daniel Grumiller , Jakob Salzer , Dmitri Vassilevich