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Abstract We review recent developments in Jackiw–Teitelboim 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). Due to its solvability, it has proven to be a fruitful toy model to analyze important questions such as the relation between black holes and chaos, the role of wormholes in black hole physics and holography, and the way in which information that falls into a black hole can be recovered.
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Maximal Tests in Minimal Gravity
Recent tests have generated impressive reach in the gravity sector of the Standard-Model Extension. This contribution to the CPT’19 proceedings sum- marizes this progress and maps the structure of work in the gravity sector.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1806990
- PAR ID:
- 10106114
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- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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