A bstract Pure gravity in AdS 3 is a theory of boundary excitations, most simply expressed as a constrained free scalar with an improved stress tensor that is needed to match the Brown-Henneaux central charge. Excising a finite part of AdS gives rise to a static gauge Nambu-Goto action for the boundary graviton. We show that this is the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ deformation of the infinite volume theory, as the effect of the improvement term on the deformed action can be absorbed into a field redefinition. The classical gravitational stress tensor is reproduced order by order by the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ trace equation. We calculate the finite volume energy spectrum in static gauge and find that the trace equation imposes sufficient constraints on the ordering ambiguities to guarantee agreement with the light-cone gauge prediction. The correlation functions, however, are not completely fixed by the trace equation. We show how both the gravitational action and the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ deformation allow for finite improvement terms, and we match these to the undetermined total derivative terms in Zamolodchikov’s point splitting definition of the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ operator.
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3D gravity in a box
The quantization of pure 3D gravity with Dirichlet boundaryconditions on a finite boundary is of interest both as a model ofquantum gravity in which one can compute quantities which are ``morelocal" than S-matrices or asymptotic boundary correlators, and forits proposed holographic duality to T\overline{T} T T ¯ -deformedCFTs. In this work we apply covariant phase space methods to deduce thePoisson bracket algebra of boundary observables. The result is aone-parameter nonlinear deformation of the usual Virasoro algebra ofasymptotically AdS _3 3 gravity. This algebra should be obeyed by the stress tensor in any T\overline{T} T T ¯ -deformedholographic CFT. We next initiate quantization of this system within thegeneral framework of coadjoint orbits, obtaining — in perturbationtheory — a deformed version of the Alekseev-Shatashvili symplectic formand its associated geometric action. The resulting energy spectrum isconsistent with the expected spectrum of T\overline{T} T T ¯ -deformedtheories, although we only carry out the explicit comparison to \mathcal{O}(1/\sqrt{c}) 𝒪 ( 1 / c ) in the 1/c 1 / c expansion.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1914412
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10345758
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- SciPost Physics
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 2542-4653
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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