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We use the well established duality of topological gravity to a double scaled matrix model with the Airy spectral curve to define what we refer to as topological gravity with arbitrary Dyson index $\upbeta$ ($\upbeta$ topological gravity).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Torsten Weber , Marco Lents , Johannes Dieplinger , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

We give further evidence that the matrix-tensor model studied in \cite{belin2023} is dual to AdS$_{3}$ gravity including the sum over topologies. This provides a 3D version of the duality between JT gravity and an ensemble of random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Daniel L. Jafferis , Liza Rozenberg , Gabriel Wong

We analyze deformations of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity by adding a gas of defects, equivalent to changing the dilaton potential. We compute the Euclidean partition function in a topological expansion and find that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Felipe Rosso , Gustavo J. Turiaci

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 specify bulk coordinates in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity using a boundary-intrinsic radar definition. This allows us to study and calculate exactly diff-invariant bulk correlation functions of matter-coupled JT gravity, which are found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Henri Verschelde

Based on periodic orbit theory we address the individual-system versus ensemble interpretation of quantum gravity from a quantum chaos perspective. To this end we show that the spectrum of geodesic motion on high-dimensional hyperbolic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Fabian Haneder , Juan Diego Urbina , Camilo Moreno , Torsten Weber , Klaus Richter

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 investigate the nonperturbative structure of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity at finite cutoff, as given by its proposed formulation in terms of a $T\bar{T}$-deformed Schwarzian quantum mechanics. Our starting point is a careful computation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Luca Griguolo , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

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

Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is a 1+1-dimensional toy model for quantum gravity in four spacetime dimensions. In the absence of matter, JT gravity is a topological field theory and there are no local observables. The introduction of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-04 Wolfgang Wieland

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 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

In this thesis we analyze a very simple model of two dimensional quantum gravity based on causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). We present an exactly solvable model which indicates that it is possible to incorporate spatial topology…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-07 Willem Westra

Four-dimensional gravity admits many equivalent formulations - metric, Einstein-Cartan, teleparallel, McDowell-Mansouri, among others - each offering distinct advantages, particularly, in view of quantization. We propose a new formulation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Maïté Dupuis , Florian Girelli , Oleksandra Hrytseniak , Wolfgang Wieland

The search for scale-invariant random geometries is central to the Asymptotic Safety hypothesis for the Euclidean path integral in quantum gravity. In an attempt to uncover new universality classes of scale-invariant random geometries that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Timothy Budd , Alicia Castro

In this paper, we investigate a critical behavior of JT gravity, a model of two-dimensional quantum gravity on constant negatively curved spacetimes. Our approach involves using techniques from random maps to investigate the generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-25 Alicia Castro

It is proposed that a complete understanding of two-dimensional quantum gravity and its emergence in random matrix models requires fully embracing {\it both} Wigner (statistics) and 't Hooft (geometry). Using non-perturbative definitions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-22 Clifford V. Johnson

Recently, it has been found that JT gravity, which is a two-dimensional theory with bulk action $ -\frac{1}{2}\int {\mathrm d}^2x \sqrt g\phi(R+2)$, is dual to a matrix model, that is, a random ensemble of quantum systems rather than a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Edward Witten

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 comprehensive and technically rigorous analysis of the status of Birkhoff's theorem in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, a paradigmatic two-dimensional model for studying semiclassical gravitational dynamics. While Birkhoff's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 D. Momeni