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We study the gauge theory formulation of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and propose Korteweg-de Vries asymptotic conditions that generalize the asymptotic dynamics of the theory. They permit to construct an enlarged set of boundary actions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-30 Marcela Cárdenas

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 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 undertake a general study of the boundary (or edge) modes that arise in gauge and gravitational theories defined on a space with boundary, either asymptotic or at finite distance, focusing on efficient techniques for computing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Seolhwa Kim , Per Kraus , Richard M. Myers

We study a Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity theory, defined as an Euclidean path integral over orientable supermanifolds with constant negative curvature, that was argued by Stanford and Witten to be captured by a random matrix model in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Clifford V. Johnson , Felipe Rosso , Andrew Svesko

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 construct the non-relativistic and Carrollian versions of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. In the second order formulation, there are no divergences in the non-relativistic and Carrollian limits. Instead, in the first order formalism there are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Joaquim Gomis , Diego Hidalgo , Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo

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

Jackiw Teitelboim (JT) gravity has proven to be an excellent tool for investigating aspects of quantum gravity and black hole physics. In recent years, the study of JT gravity and its deformations has helped us learn about the different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-04 Eoin Dowd , Gaston Giribet

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 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 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

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

We directly evaluate the probability amplitudes in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity using the Lorentzian path integral formulation. By imposing boundary conditions on the scale factor and the dilaton field, the Lorentzian path integral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Masazumi Honda , Hiroki Matsui , Kota Numajiri , Kazumasa Okabayashi

We study Einstein gravity in a finite spatial region. By requiring a well-defined variational principle, we identify all local boundary conditions, derive surface observables, and compute their algebra. The observables arise as induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Viqar Husain , Seth Major

We discuss AdS$_2$ quantum gravity from an unconventional perspective that emphasizes bulk geometry. In our approach, AdS$_2$ has no boundary, there are no divergences that require renormalization, and the dilaton of JT-gravity can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Sangmin Choi , Finn Larsen

We study a bi-parametric family of dilaton gravity models with constant and negative curvature. This family includes the Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and the Liouville gravity model induced by a bosonic string. Furthermore, this family is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-26 Carlos Valcárcel

We study the perturbative series associated to bi-local correlators in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, for positive weight $\lambda$ of the matter CFT operators. Starting from the known exact expression, derived by CFT and gauge theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-18 Luca Griguolo , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

We classify and study defects in 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. We show these are holographically described by a deformation of the Schwarzian theory where the reparametrization mode is integrated over different coadjoint orbits of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas G. Mertens , Gustavo J. Turiaci

We argue that a discrete bulk spectrum with random statistics appears naturally in the Lorentzian description of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity if an extra confining potential is introduced in the region where the renormalized geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Dongsu Bak , Chanju Kim , Sang-Heon Yi