Off-shell partition functions in 3d gravity

DOI10.1007/S00220-024-04963-2arXiv2204.09789OpenAlexW4392503306MaRDI QIDQ6202913FDOQ6202913

Lorenz Eberhardt

Publication date: 26 March 2024

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant via canonical quantization. We focus on chiral gravity which is related to a single copy of $mathrmPSL(2,mathbbR)$ Chern-Simons theory and is simpler to treat in canonical quantization. Its phase space for an initial value surface $Sigma$ is given by the appropriate moduli space of Riemann surfaces. We use geometric quantization to compute partition functions of chiral gravity on three-manifolds of the form $Sigmaimesmathrm{S}^1$, where $Sigma$ can have asymptotic boundaries. Most of these topologies do not admit a classical solution and are thus not amenable to a direct semiclassical path integral computation. We use an index theorem that expresses the partition function as an integral of characteristic classes over phase space. In the presence of $n$ asymptotic boundaries, we use techniques from equivariant cohomology to localize the integral to a finite-dimensional integral over $overline{mathcalM}_{g,n}$, which we evaluate in low genus cases. Higher genus partition functions quickly become complicated since they depend in an oscillatory way on Newton's constant. There is a precise sense in which one can isolate the non-oscillatory part which we call the fake partition function. We establish that there is a topological recursion that computes the fake partition functions for arbitrary Riemann surfaces $Sigma$. There is a scaling limit in which the model reduces to JT gravity and our methods give a novel way to compute JT partition functions via equivariant localization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09789

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81Txx) Curves in algebraic geometry (14Hxx) General relativity (83Cxx)

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