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most citedThe dilaton gravity hologram of double-scaled SYK

21 citations · 45 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

hep-th2025

Probing the singularity at the holographic screen via -holography

Andreas Belaey, Thomas G. Mertens, Jacopo Papalini

We study the emergence of -deformed spacetime in a lower-dimensional gravitational system whose asymptotic region geometrizes the global symmetry of a -deformed CFT. More pre…

hep-th2025★ 17 cited

Wormholes, branes and finite matrices in sine dilaton gravity

Andreas Blommaert, Adam Levine, Thomas G. Mertens +2

We compute the double trumpet in sine dilaton gravity via WdW quantization. The wormhole size is discretized. The wormhole amplitude matches the spectral correlation of a finite-cu…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

An entropic puzzle in periodic dilaton gravity and DSSYK

Andreas Blommaert, Adam Levine, Thomas G. Mertens +2

We study 2d dilaton gravity theories with a periodic potential, with special emphasis on sine dilaton gravity, which is holographically dual to double-scaled SYK. The periodicity o…

hep-th2024★ 21 cited

The dilaton gravity hologram of double-scaled SYK

Andreas Blommaert, Thomas G. Mertens, Jacopo Papalini

We work out a precise holographic duality between sine dilaton gravity, and DSSYK. More precisely, canonical quantization of sine dilaton gravity reproduces q-Schwarzian quantum me…

hep-th2023★ 5 cited

The q-Schwarzian and Liouville gravity

Andreas Blommaert, Thomas G. Mertens, Shunyu Yao

We present a new holographic duality between q-Schwarzian quantum mechanics and Liouville gravity. The q-Schwarzian is a one parameter deformation of the Schwarzian, which is dual…