Quantum gravity from timelike Liouville theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2019)284zbMATH Open1427.83018arXiv1905.12689WikidataQ126836421 ScholiaQ126836421MaRDI QIDQ2283558FDOQ2283558

Authors: Teresa Bautista, Atish Dabholkar, Harold Erbin 

Publication date: 2 January 2020

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

Abstract: A proper definition of the path integral of quantum gravity has been a long-standing puzzle because the Weyl factor of the Euclidean metric has a wrong-sign kinetic term. We propose a definition of two-dimensional Liouville quantum gravity with cosmological constant using conformal bootstrap for the timelike Liouville theory coupled to supercritical matter. We prove a no-ghost theorem for the states in the BRST cohomology. We show that the four-point function constructed by gluing the timelike Liouville three-point functions is well defined and crossing symmetric (numerically) for external Liouville energies corresponding to extit{all} physical states in the BRST cohomology with the choice of the Ribault-Santachiara contour for the internal energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12689

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryBRST quantization2D gravitymodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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