Solvable models of quantum black holes: a review on Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity

TG Mertens, GJ Turiaci - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2023 - Springer
We review recent developments in Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity. This is a simple solvable
model of quantum gravity in two dimensions (that arises eg from the s-wave sector of higher …

Liouville quantum gravity—holography, JT and matrices

TG Mertens, GJ Turiaci - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study two-dimensional Liouville gravity and minimal string theory on spaces
with fixed length boundaries. We find explicit formulas describing the gravitational dressing …

Dissecting the ensemble in JT gravity

A Blommaert - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We calculate bulk and boundary correlators in JT gravity by summing over
geometries. The answers are reproduced by computing suitable ensemble averages of …

Alpha states demystified—towards microscopic models of AdS2 holography

A Blommaert, LV Iliesiu, J Kruthoff - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We continue our study of factorizing theories of dilaton gravity, characterized by a
universal bilocal interaction. All such factorizing theories can be shown to have discrete …

From quantum groups to Liouville and dilaton quantum gravity

Y Fan, TG Mertens - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We investigate the underlying quantum group symmetry of 2d Liouville and dilaton
gravity models, both consolidating known results and extending them to the cases …

Unruh-DeWitt detector in dimensionally-reduced static spherically symmetric spacetimes

E Tjoa, RB Mann - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We study the dynamics of an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless
scalar field in an arbitrary static spherically symmetric spacetimes whose metric is …

Supergroup structure of Jackiw-Teitelboim supergravity

Y Fan, TG Mertens - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We develop the gauge theory formulation of\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 Jackiw-Teitelboim
supergravity in terms of the underlying OSp (1| 2, ℝ) supergroup, focusing on boundary …

Degenerate operators in JT and Liouville (super) gravity

TG Mertens - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We derive explicit expressions for a specific subclass of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT)
gravity bilocal correlators, corresponding to degenerate Virasoro representations. On the …

Encoded information of mixed correlations: the views from one dimension higher

M Ghodrati - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract After reviewing the JT gravity, we discuss the four saddles in the mixed correlation
measures of black holes Hawking radiation in the setup of geometric evaporation of [1]. By …

Operational islands and black hole dissipation in JT gravity

J De Vuyst, TG Mertens - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In this work, we revisit the problem of finding entanglement islands in 2d Jackiw-
Teitelboim (JT) gravity. We implement the following adjustments to the traditional setup:(1) …