TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.3.065
TI  - Massive fields and Wilson spools in JT gravity
PY  - 2025/09/03
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.3.065
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
SP  - 065
A1  - Fliss, Jackson R.
AB  - We give a prescription for minimally coupling massive matter to JT gravity with either sign of cosmological constant directly in its formulation as a topological BF theory. This coupling takes the form of a 'Wilson spool,' originally introduced in the context of three-dimensional gravity. The Wilson spool expresses the exact one-loop partition function as the integral over a Wilson loop operator. We construct the spool by considering the partition function of a massive scalar field on Euclidean dS$_2$ and on Euclidean AdS$_2$. We discuss its extension to other geometries (including the 'trumpet' and conical defect geometries) and its relation to the three-dimensional spool through dimensional reduction.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.3.065,
	title={{Massive fields and Wilson spools in JT gravity}},
	author={Jackson R. Fliss},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={19},
	pages={065},
	year={2025},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.3.065},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.3.065},
}