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so(2,2) extension of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity via the Virasoro-Kac-Moody semidirect product

Goffredo Chirco*, Lucio Vacchiano†, and Patrizia Vitale‡

  • *Contact author: goffredo.chirco@unina.it
  • †Contact author: lucio.vacchiano@unina.it
  • ‡Contact author: patrizia.vitale@na.infn.it
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Phys. Rev. D 112, 026003 – Published 1 July, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/kpkz-rszk

Abstract

We consider a bulk plus boundary extension of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled with non-Abelian gauge fields. The generalization is performed in the Poisson sigma model formulation and it is derived as a dimensional reduction of the AdS3 Chern-Simons theory with Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) boundary terms. We discuss the role of boundary conditions in relation to the symmetries of the boundary dynamics and we show that the boundary action can be written in terms of coadjoint orbits of an appropriate Virasoro-Kac-Moody group. We obtain a Schwarzian action and interaction terms with additional edge modes that match the effective low-energy action of recent Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev-like tensor models.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 026003– Published 1 July, 2025
  • Received 18 March 2025
  • Accepted 10 June 2025
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