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We propose an optimization procedure for Euclidean path-integrals that evaluate CFT wave functionals in arbitrary dimensions. The optimization is performed by minimizing certain functional, which can be interpreted as a measure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Pawel Caputa , Nilay Kundu , Masamichi Miyaji , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kento Watanabe

This papers offers a critical discussion on the procedure by which Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) is constructed from the full Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) theory. Revising recent issues in preserving SU(2) symmetry when quantizing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Francesco Cianfrani , Giovanni Montani

The canonical approach to quantum gravity has been put on a firm mathematical foundation in the recent decades. Even the quantum dynamics can be rigorously defined, however, due to the tremendously non-polynomial character of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-31 Thomas Thiemann

Quantum gravity in 4D asymptotically flat spacetimes features spontaneous symmetry breaking due to soft radiation hair, intimately tied to the proliferation of IR divergences. A holographic description via a putative 2D CFT is expected free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Alfredo Guevara , Yangrui Hu

The quantisation of the two-dimensional Liouville field theory is investigated using the path integral, on the sphere, in the large radius limit. The general form of the $N$-point functions of vertex operators is found and the three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. O'Raifeartaigh , J. M. Pawlowski , V. V. Sreedhar

We couple c=-2 matter to 2-dimensional gravity within the framework of dynamical triangulations. We use a very fast algorithm, special to the c=-2 case, in order to test scaling of correlation functions defined in terms of geodesic distance…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos , T. Ichihara , L. Jensen , N. Kawamoto , Y. Watabiki , K. Yotsuji

Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG), nonperturbatively renormalized by means of a certain asymptotically safe renormalization group (RG) trajectory, is explored by solving its scale dependent effective field equations and embedding the family of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Renata Ferrero , Martin Reuter

We introduce a new methodology to characterize properties of quantum spacetime in a strongly quantum-fluctuating regime, using tools from topological data analysis. Starting from a microscopic quantum geometry, generated nonperturbatively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 J. van der Duin , R. Loll , M. Schiffer , A. Silva

We formulate a non-perturbative lattice model of two-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity by performing the path integral over geometries with a causal structure. The model can be solved exactly at the discretized level. Its continuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll

This is the first part of an investigation concerning the formulation of 2D gravity in the framework of the uniformization theory of Riemann surfaces. As a first step in this direction we show that the classical Liouville action appears in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Matone

A two-dimensional CFT dual to a semiclassical theory of gravity in three dimensions must have a large central charge $c$ and a sparse low energy spectrum. This constrains the OPE coefficients and density of states of the CFT via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Jeevan Chandra , Scott Collier , Thomas Hartman , Alexander Maloney

We study conformal field theories (CFTs) and their classifications from a modern perspective based on the abstract algebraic formalism of symmetries or conserved charges, known as symmetry topological field theories (SymTFTs). By studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Yoshiki Fukusumi , Taishi Kawamoto

Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime (QFT on CS) is a well established theoretical framework which intuitively should be a an extremely effective description of the quantum nature of matter when propagating on a given background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-30 Kristina Giesel , Johannes Tambornino , Thomas Thiemann

We study Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surfaces whose law has been reweighted according to nesting statistics for a conformal loop ensemble (CLE) relative to $n\in \mathbb{N}_0$ marked points $z_1,\dots,z_n$. The idea is to consider a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Nina Holden , Matthis Lehmkuehler

An exact mapping is established between the $c\geq25$ Liouville field theory (LFT) and the Gibbs measure statistics of a thermal particle in a 2D Gaussian Free Field plus a logarithmic confining potential. The probability distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-16 Xiangyu Cao , Pierre Le Doussal , Alberto Rosso , Raoul Santachiara

We introduce a flexible and graphically intuitive framework that constructs complex quantum error correction codes from simple codes or states, generalizing code concatenation. More specifically, we represent the complex code constructions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 ChunJun Cao , Brad Lackey

In this note, we show that tree-level MHV $n$-graviton amplitudes, when analytically continued to Klein space, can be holographically generated as the correlators of a two-dimensional conformal field theory ($2d$ CFT) in the large-$N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-23 Igor Mol

Carrollian conformal field theories (carrollian CFTs) are natural field theories on null infinity of an asymptotically flat spacetime or, in general, geometries with conformal carrollian structure. Using a basis transformation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-13 Jakob Salzer

We advocate lattice methods as the tool of choice to constructively define a background-independent theory of Lorentzian quantum gravity and explore its physical properties in the Planckian regime. The formulation that arguably has most…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-05-30 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

Over the past twenty years, the probabilistic approach to Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) has undergone remarkable developments, transforming a collection of ideas at the interface of probability, geometry, complex analysis and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas