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We develop a generic geometric formalism that incorporates both $T\bar{T}$-like and root-$T\bar{T}$-like deformations in arbitrary dimensions. This framework applies to a wide family of stress-energy tensor perturbations and encompasses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 H. Babaei-Aghbolagh , Song He , Tommaso Morone , Hao Ouyang , Roberto Tateo

In this paper, we generalize the deformations driven by the stress-energy tensor $T$ and investigate their relation to the flow equation for the background metric at the classical level. For a deformation operator $\mathcal{O}$ as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-02 Xi-Yang Ran , Feng Hao , Masatoshi Yamada

We study systems in arbitrary space-time dimensions where matter, deformed by $\mathrm{T}\bar{\mathrm{T}}$-like irrelevant operators, is coupled to gravity in the Palatini formalism. The dynamically equivalent perspective is investigated,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-27 Tommaso Morone , Stefano Negro , Roberto Tateo

Stress-tensor deformations suggest a geometric origin of emergent gravity but are typically non-local for $d>2$. We couple a seed QFT to Einstein gravity with deformation parameter $\lambda$ and evaluate the gravitational path integral at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Yunfei Xie , Yun-Ze Li , Lixin Xu , Song He

This study introduces a high-order perturbation methodology to categorize two primary solution types within duality-invariant nonlinear electrodynamic theories, adhering to the differential self-duality criterion. The first solution type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 H. Babaei-Aghbolagh , Song He , Hao Ouyang

This review explores recent advances in the theory of $T\bar{T}$ deformation, an irrelevant yet solvable deformation of quantum field theories defined via the quadratic form of the energy-momentum tensor. It addresses classical and quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Song He , Yi Li , Hao Ouyang , Yuan Sun

The irrelevant composite operator $T\bar{T}$, constructed from components of the stress-energy tensor, exhibits unique properties in two-dimensional quantum field theories and represents a distinctive form of integrable deformation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Nicolò Brizio , Tommaso Morone , Roberto Tateo

We study the $T\overline{T}$ deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories from a Hamiltonian point of view, focusing on aspects of the theory in Lorentzian signature. Our starting point is a simple rewriting of the spatial integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Jorrit Kruthoff , Onkar Parrikar

We show how solutions to the Ricci flow on Lorentzian manifolds, along with its generalizations, can be linked to Einstein's field equations. The approach involves deformations of the matter sector that are generated by quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Tommaso Morone , Roberto Tateo

We review the main aspects of Ricci flows as they arise in physics and mathematics. In field theory they describe the renormalization group equations of the target space metric of two dimensional sigma models to lowest order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Bakas

It has recently been proposed that Zamoldchikov's $T \bar{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional CFTs describes the holographic theory dual to AdS$_3$ at finite radius. In this note we use the Gauss-Codazzi form of the Einstein equations to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-29 Marika Taylor

We revisit the results of Zamolodchikov and others on the deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theory by the determinant $\det T$ of the stress tensor, commonly referred to as $T\overline T$. Infinitesimally this is equivalent to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-02 John Cardy

In this work we construct and analyze exact solutions describing Ricci flows and nonholonomic deformations of four dimensional (4D) Taub-NUT spacetimes. It is outlined a new geometric techniques of constructing Ricci flow solutions. Some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Mihai Visinescu

We find exact solutions describing Ricci flows of four dimensional pp-waves nonlinearly deformed by two/three dimensional solitons. Such solutions are parametrized by five dimensional metrics with generic off-diagonal terms and connections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We investigate gravity models emerging from nonholonomic (subjected to non-integrable constraints) Ricci flows. Considering generalizations of G. Perelman's entropy functionals, relativistic geometric flow equations, nonholonomic Ricci…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Iuliana Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev

We investigate several possible generalisations of $T\overline{T}$ deformations to three- and higher-dimensional field theories. Starting from the two-dimensional $T\overline{T}$ flow, we work out its higher-dimensional uplift, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Nicolò Brizio , Moritz Kade , Alessandro Sfondrini , Dmitri P. Sorokin

The description of the $T\bar{T}$ deformation in terms of two-dimensional gravity is analyzed from the Hamiltonian point of view, in a manner analogous to the ADM description of general relativity. We find that the Hamiltonian constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Florencia Benítez , Guzmán Hernández-Chifflet , Esteban Mato

We develop the holographic dictionary for pure $\mathrm{AdS}_3$ gravity where the Lagrangian of the dual $2d$ conformal field theory has been deformed by an arbitrary function of the energy-momentum tensor. In addition to the $T…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Stephen Ebert , Christian Ferko , Zhengdi Sun

We revisit $T\bar T$ deformations of $d=2$ theories with fermions with a view toward the quantization. As a simple illustration, we compute the deformed Dirac bracket for a Majorana doublet and confirm the known eigenvalue flows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Kyung-Sun Lee , Piljin Yi , Junggi Yoon

We employ the massive gravity approach to stress-tensor deformations in a variety of scenarios, obtaining novel results and establishing new connections. Starting with perturbation theory, we show that the addition of $\text{tr}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Alexia Nix , Evangelos Tsolakidis
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