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We propose a definition for the Lorentzian Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity path integral that includes Lorentzian topology changing configurations. The construction is inspired by the bosonic string genus expansion on singular Lorentzian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Mykhaylo Usatyuk

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 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

A path integral in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is given by integrating over the volume of the moduli of Riemann surfaces with boundaries, known as the "Weil-Petersson volume," together with integrals over wiggles along the boundaries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-14 Yusuke Kimura

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

We propose that a class of new topologies, for which there is no classical solution, should be included in the path integral of three-dimensional pure gravity, and that their inclusion solves pathological negativities in the spectrum,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Henry Maxfield , Gustavo J. Turiaci

The formulation of two-dimensional quantum gravity at finite cutoff remains an open problem. We revisit this question in JT gravity from two perspectives: the closed-channel bulk path integral and the path integral over boundary curves.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Luca Griguolo , Jacopo Papalini , Lorenzo Russo , Domenico Seminara

The Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) model arises from the dimensional reduction of charged black holes. Motivated by the holographic complexity conjecture, we calculate the late-time rate of change of action of a Wheeler-DeWitt patch in the JT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Adam R. Brown , Hrant Gharibyan , Henry W. Lin , Leonard Susskind , Larus Thorlacius , Ying Zhao

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 review recent developments in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. This is a simple solvable model of quantum gravity in two dimensions (that arises e.g. from the s-wave sector of higher dimensional gravity systems with spherical symmetry).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Thomas G. Mertens , 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

It has been shown recently by Saad, Shenker and Stanford that the genus expansion of a certain matrix integral generates partition functions of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) quantum gravity on Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus with any fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-21 Irina Aref'eva , Igor Volovich

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 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

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

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

The gravitational path integral on $S^2 \times S^2$ can be interpreted either as evaluating a contribution to the norm of the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction conditional on spatial $S^1 \times S^2$ topology, or the pair creation rate of black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Xiaoyi Shi , Gustavo J. Turiaci

We present exact results for partition functions of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity on two-dimensional surfaces of arbitrary genus with an arbitrary number of boundaries. The boundaries are of the type relevant in the NAdS${}_2$/NCFT${}_1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-28 Phil Saad , Stephen H. Shenker , Douglas Stanford

In Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, which is dual to a random matrix ensemble, the annealed entropy differs from the quenched entropy at low temperatures and goes negative. However, computing the quenched entropy in JT gravity requires a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Stefano Antonini , Luca V. Iliesiu , Pratik Rath , Patrick Tran

We present a JT gravity setup coupled with $U(1)$ and $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills fields in two dimensions that reveals the onset of a small black hole to large black hole phase transition at finite chemical potential(s). We identify these black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Hemant Rathi , Dibakar Roychowdhury
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