FZZT branes in JT gravity and topological gravity

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Publication:2237692

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2021)191zbMATH Open1472.83077arXiv2108.03876OpenAlexW3201925373MaRDI QIDQ2237692FDOQ2237692


Authors: Kazumi Okuyama, Kazuhiro Sakai Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 October 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov-Teschner (FZZT) branes in Witten-Kontsevich topological gravity, which includes Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity as a special case. Adding FZZT branes to topological gravity corresponds to inserting determinant operators in the dual matrix integral and amounts to a certain shift of the infinitely many couplings of topological gravity. We clarify the perturbative interpretation of adding FZZT branes in the genus expansion of topological gravity in terms of a simple boundary factor and the generalized Weil-Petersson volumes. As a concrete illustration we study JT gravity in the presence of FZZT branes and discuss its relation to the deformations of the dilaton potential that give rise to conical defects. We then construct a non-perturbative formulation of FZZT branes and derive a closed expression for the general correlation function of multiple FZZT branes and multiple macroscopic loops. As an application we study the FZZT-macroscopic loop correlators in the Airy case. We observe numerically a void in the eigenvalue density due to the eigenvalue repulsion induced by FZZT-branes and also the oscillatory behavior of the spectral form factor which is expected from the picture of eigenbranes.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03876




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