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The $J\bar T$ deformation, built from the components of the stress tensor and of a $U(1)$ current, is a universal irrelevant deformation of two-dimensional CFTs that preserves the left-moving conformal symmetry, while breaking locality on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Monica Guica

The $T \bar T$ deformation of a 2 dimensional field theory living on a curved spacetime is equivalent to coupling the undeformed field theory to 2 dimensional `ghost-free' massive gravity. We derive the equivalence classically, and using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Andrew J. Tolley

The relationship between $T\bar{T}$ deformations and the uniform light-cone gauge, first noted in arXiv:1804.01998, provides a powerful generating technique for deformed models. We recall this construction, distinguishing between changes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Alessandro Sfondrini , Stijn J. van Tongeren

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 $T\bar{T}$-deformed $O(N)$ scalar field theory in two-dimensional spacetime using the functional renormalization group. We derive the $\beta$ functions for the couplings in the system and explore the fixed points. In addition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-15 Jie Liu , Junichi Haruna , Masatoshi Yamada

In this paper, we continue the study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation in $d=1$ quantum mechanical systems and propose possible analogues of $J\bar{T}$ deformation and deformation by a general linear combination of $T\bar{T}$ and $J\bar{T}$ in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Soumangsu Chakraborty , Amiya Mishra

We consider the problem of exact integration of the $T\bar{T}$-deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories, as well as some higher dimensional extensions in the form of $\det T$-deformations. When the action can be shown to only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Giulio Bonelli , Nima Doroud , Mengqi Zhu

This is a pedagogical review on $\mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}}$ deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories. It is based on three lectures which the author gave at ITP-CAS in December 2018. This review consists of four parts.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Yunfeng Jiang

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

We develop a framework of zero dimensional defects for analyzing light-light-heavy-heavy (LLHH) correlators in conformal field theories. We specifically apply this formalism to correlators of giant gravitons in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Junding Chen , Yunfeng Jiang , Xinan Zhou

The model of p Ising spins coupled to 2d gravity, in the form of a sum over planar phi-cubed graphs, is studied and in particular the two-point and spin-spin correlation functions are considered. We first solve a toy model in which only a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. G. Harris , J. Ambjorn

Under some plausible assumptions, we find that the dual formulation of linearized gravity in D=5 can be nontrivially coupled to the topological BF model in such a way that the interacting theory exhibits a deformed gauge algebra and some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-24 C. Bizdadea , E. M. Cioroianu , A. Danehkar , M. Iordache , S. O. Saliu , S. C. Sararu

We study multi-boundary correlators in 2d Witten-Kontsevich topological gravity. We present a proof of the loop equations obeyed by the correlators. While the loop equations were derived a long time ago, our proof is fully explicit in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Kazumi Okuyama , Kazuhiro Sakai

We provide a simple geometric meaning for deformations of so-called $T{\overline T}$ type in relativistic and non-relativistic systems. Deformations by the cross products of energy and momentum currents in integrable quantum field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 John Cardy , Benjamin Doyon

In this paper, we investigate the correlation functions of the conformal field theory (CFT) with the $T\bar{T}$ deformation on torus in terms of perturbative CFT approach, which is the extension of the previous investigations on correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Song He , Yuan Sun

The decomposition of correlation functions into conformal blocks is an indispensable tool in conformal field theory. For spinning correlators, non-trivial tensor structures are needed to mediate between the conformal blocks, which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Ilija Buric , Mikhail Isachenkov , Volker Schomerus

We show that one can use some renormalized coupling constants to compute the free energy and correlation functions at all critical points of the two-dimensional topological gravity in a uniform way. In particular, one can derive the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-05 Jian Zhou

We consider conformal field theories around points of large twist degeneracy. Examples of this are theories with weakly broken higher spin symmetry and perturbations around generalised free fields. At the degenerate point we introduce twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Luis F. Alday

We study the duality between JT gravity and the double-scaled matrix model including their respective deformations. For these deformed theories we relate the thermal partition function to the generating function of topological gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Stefan Forste , Hans Jockers , Joshua Kames-King , Alexandros Kanargias

In the context of a canonical quantization of general relativity, one can deform the loop gravity phase space on a graph by replacing the T*SU(2) phase space attached to each edge by SL(2,C) seen as a phase space. This deformation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 Maité Dupuis , Florian Girelli , Etera R. Livine