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We rewrite the Chern-Simons description of pure gravity on global AdS$_3$ and on Euclidean BTZ black holes as a quantum field theory on the AdS boundary. The resulting theory is (two copies of) the path integral quantization of a certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

This thesis is dedicated to the study of quasi-local boundary in quantum gravity in the 3D space-time case. This research takes root in the holographic principle, which conjectures that the geometry and the dynamic of a space-time region…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-21 Christophe Goeller

We present the asymptotic analysis of 3D conformal gravity as a SO(3,2) Chern-Simons gauge theory with Minkowskian (flat) and AdS boundary conditions. We further extend these boundary conditions to the case where the Weyl mode and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Hamid R. Afshar

We review some aspects of three-dimensional quantum gravity with emphasis in the `CFT -> Geometry' map that follows from the Brown-Henneaux conformal algebra. The general solution to the classical equations of motion with anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Maximo Banados

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 point out a difficulty with a naive application of Virasoro TQFT methods to compute path integrals for two types of off-shell 3-dimensional geometries. Maxfield-Turiaci proposed solving the negativity problem of pure 3d gravity by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Cynthia Yan

We review the approach to quantum gravity which is based on the assumption that the short-distance structure of the spacetime is given by a piecewise flat manifold corresponding to a triangulation of a smooth manifold. We then describe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Aleksandar Mikovic

We analyze the partition function of three-dimensional quantum gravity on the twisted solid tours and the ensuing dual field theory. The setting is that of a non-perturbative model of three dimensional quantum gravity--the Ponzano-Regge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-22 Bianca Dittrich , Christophe Goeller , Etera Livine , Aldo Riello

We present a spherically symmetric aAdS gravity solution with Schwinger-Keldysh boundary condition dual to a CFT at finite temperature defined on a complex time contour. The geometry is built by gluing the exterior of a two-sided AdS Black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Marcelo Botta-Cantcheff , Pedro J. Martínez , Guillermo A. Silva

We describe a theory of quantum gravity which is based on the assumption that the spacetime structure at small distances is given by a piecewise linear (PL) 4-manifold corresponding to a triangulation of a smooth 4-manifold. The fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Aleksandar Mikovic , Marko Vojinovic

We propose a method for demonstrating equivalences beyond the saddlepoint approximation between quantities in quantum gravity that are defined by the Euclidean path integral, without assumptions about holographic duality. The method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Vijay Balasubramanian , Tom Yildirim

We present the complete family of solutions of 3D gravity (Lambda<0) with two asymptotically AdS exterior regions. The solutions are constructed from data at the two boundaries, which correspond to two independent and arbitrary stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Gautam Mandal , Ritam Sinha , Nilakash Sorokhaibam

The quantization of pure 3D gravity with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a finite boundary is of interest both as a model of quantum gravity in which one can compute quantities which are "more local" than S-matrices or asymptotic boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-29 Per Kraus , Ruben Monten , Richard M. Myers

We perform a canonical quantization of pure gravity on AdS3 using as a technical tool its equivalence at the classical level with a Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SL(2,R)xSL(2,R). We first quantize the theory canonically on an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-28 Jihun Kim , Massimo Porrati

We define a (semi-classical) path integral for gravity with Neumann boundary conditions in $D$ dimensions, and show how to relate this new partition function to the usual picture of Euclidean quantum gravity. We also write down the action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Chethan Krishnan , K. V. Pavan Kumar , Avinash Raju

3D Loop Quantum Gravity with a vanishing cosmological constant can be related to the quantization of the $\textrm{SU}(2)$ BF theory discretized on a lattice. At the classical level, this discrete model characterizes discrete flat geometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-03 Valentin Bonzom , Maité Dupuis , Florian Girelli

We study quantum gravity on $dS_{3}$ using the Chern-Simons formulation of three -dimensional gravity. We derive an exact expression for the partition function for quantum gravity on $dS_{3}$ in a Euclidean path integral approach. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. R. Govindarajan , R. K. Kaul , V. Suneeta

We find out the complex geometries corresponding to the semi-classical saddles of threedimensional quantum gravity by making use of the known results of dual conformal field theory (CFT), which is effectively given by Liouville field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-16 Heng-Yu Chen , Yasuaki Hikida , Yusuke Taki , Takahiro Uetoko

We present a line of research aimed at investigating holographic dualities in the context of three dimensional quantum gravity within finite bounded regions. The bulk quantum geometrodynamics is provided by the Ponzano-Regge state-sum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-22 Bianca Dittrich , Christophe Goeller , Etera R. Livine , Aldo Riello

By applying the stress-tensor-scalar operator product expansion (OPE) twice, we search for algebraic structures in $d=4$ conformal field theories (CFTs) with a pure Einstein gravity dual. We find that a rescaled mode operator defined by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Kuo-Wei Huang