nLab D=2 gravity

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Context

Gravity

String theory

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Idea

One may consider gravity (general relativity, Einstein's equations) on spacetimes of dimension 2.

Examples

Relativistic string worldsheets

If 2d gravity is coupled to scalar “matter”-fields with values in some target space, then this may be regarded as the worldsheet-sigma-model quantum field theory of a relativistic string propagating on that target spacetime.

2d Dilaton gravity – JT gravity

A form of 2d dilaton gravity is known as Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, or JT-gravity, for short.

JT-gravity gives a good approximation to the AdS-factor in the near horizon geometry AdS 2×S d2AdS_2\times S^{d-2} of near-extremal black holes in dd-dimensional spacetime (NSST18, MTV18).

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