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Three-dimensional gravity is a topological field theory, which can be quantized as the Ponzano-Regge state-sum model built from the $\{3nj\}$-symbols of the recoupling of the $\SU(2)$ representations, in which spins are interpreted as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-15 Etera R. Livine , Qiaoyin Pan

Continuing the work arXiv:1504.05991, we discuss various aspects of three dimensional quantum gravity partition function in AdS in the semi-classical limit. The partition function is holomorphic and is the one which we obtained by using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Masazumi Honda , Norihiro Iizuka , Akinori Tanaka , Seiji Terashima

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 discuss the holographic correspondence between 3d "Chern-Simons gravity" and an ensemble of 2d Narain code CFTs. Starting from 3d abelian Chern-Simons theory, we construct an ensemble of boundary CFTs defined by gauging all possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Anatoly Dymarsky , Johan Henriksson , Brian McPeak

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 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

This is the first of a series of papers dedicated to the study of the partition function of three-dimensional quantum gravity on the twisted solid torus with the aim to deepen our understanding of holographic dualities from a…

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

Pure 3d gravity in AdS is believed to admit a holographic description in terms of 2d CFT. We introduce a theory of fermionic 3d gravity where we sum over geometries equipped with spin structure, and propose it is holographically described…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 Jan Boruch , Elisa Tabor , Gustavo J. Turiaci

I argue that the complete partition function of 3D quantum gravity is given by a path integral over gauge-inequivalent manifolds times the Chern-Simons partition function. In a discrete version, it gives a sum over simplicial complexes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Boulatov

A general paradigm for describing classical (and semiclassical) gravity is presented. This approach brings to the centre-stage a holographic relationship between the bulk and surface terms in a general class of action functionals and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Padmanabhan

We consider a toy model of a 3-dimensional topological quantum gravity. In this model, a contribution of a given 3-manifold is given by the partition function of an abelian Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT), with a topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Thomas Nicosanti , Pavel Putrov

The path integral of pure 3D gravity with negative cosmological constant is formulated on a finite region of spacetime $M$, with boundary conditions that fix geodesic lengths or dihedral angles on $\partial M$. In the dual CFT, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Thomas Hartman

We construct a massive spin-2 theory in 2+1 dimensions that is immune to the bulk-boundary unitarity conflict in anti-de Sitter space and hence amenable to holography. The theory is an extension of Topologically Massive Gravity, just like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Bayram Tekin

In this thesis we study two different approaches to holography, and comment on the possible relation between them. The first approach is an analysis of the high-energy regime of quantum gravity in the eikonal approximation, where the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Sebastian de Haro

We propose a generalisation of the $T \bar{T}$ deformation to curved spaces by defining, and solving, a suitable flow equation for the partition function. We provide evidence it is well-defined at the quantum level. This proposal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Edward A. Mazenc , Vasudev Shyam , Ronak M Soni

We consider transition amplitudes in the coloured simplicial Boulatov model for three-dimensional Riemannian quantum gravity. First, we discuss aspects of the topology of coloured graphs with non-empty boundaries. Using a modification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Christophe Goeller , Daniele Oriti , Gabriel Schmid

Quasi-topological gravity is a new gravitational theory including curvature-cubed interactions and for which exact black hole solutions were constructed. In a holographic framework, classical quasi-topological gravity can be thought to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-14 Robert C. Myers , Miguel F. Paulos , Aninda Sinha

We study topologically massive (2+1)-dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The masses of the linearized curvature excitations about AdS_3 backgrounds are not only shifted from their flat background values but, more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip , S. Deser , A. Waldron , D. K. Wise

A holographic model of QCD in the limit of large number of colors, $N_c$, and massless fermion flavors, $N_f$, but constant ratio $x_f=N_f/N_c$ is analyzed at finite temperature and chemical potential. The five dimensional gravity model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-04 T. Alho , M. Jarvinen , K. Kajantie , E. Kiritsis , C. Rosen , K. Tuominen

Using 3D-3D correspondence, we construct 3D dual bulk field theories for general Virasoro minimal models $M(P,Q)$. These theories correspond to Seifert fiber spaces $S^2 ((P,P-R),(Q,S),(3,1))$ with two integers $(R,S)$ satisfying $PS-QR…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Dongmin Gang , Heesu Kang , Seongmin Kim