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7 papers

hep-th2026

The many facets of a hyperbolic tetrahedron: open and closed triangulations of 3d gravity

Daniel L. Jafferis, Diandian Wang

We study a model of 3d gravity relevant to the open sector of a CFT ensemble. The quantum theory is the open Virasoro TQFT, obtained by restricting the full open-closed Virasoro TQ…

hep-th2026

Monitoring a de Sitter universe through an anti-de Sitter window

Sarah Hoback, Daniel L. Jafferis, Zixia Wei

We propose that AdS gravity coupled to dS end-of-the-world branes is dual to a unitary holographic CFT with non-unitary conformal boundary conditions. These boundary co…

hep-th2026

On random matrix statistics of 3d gravity

Daniel L. Jafferis, Liza Rozenberg, Debmalya Sarkar +1

We show that 3d gravity on manifolds that are topologically a Riemann surface times an interval with end-of-the-world branes at the ends of the interval is descr…

hep-th2025

Open-closed 3d gravity as a random ensemble

Daniel L. Jafferis, Liza Rozenberg, Diandian Wang

We investigate an ensemble of boundary CFTs within the framework of a tensor model recently constructed to model 3d quantum gravity. The incorporation of CFT borders introduces new…

hep-th2025

Stretched horizon, replica trick and off-shell winding condensate, and all that

Indranil Halder, Daniel L. Jafferis

corrections to near-horizon dynamics of a Schwarzschild black hole in a large number of spacetime dimensions are governed by the worldsheet theory composed of the cigar C…

hep-th2025

3d Gravity as a random ensemble

Daniel L. Jafferis, Liza Rozenberg, Gabriel Wong

We give further evidence that the matrix-tensor model studied in \cite{belin2023} is dual to AdS gravity including the sum over topologies. This provides a 3D version of the…