Extended JT supergravity and random matrix models: The power of the string equation
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| contents | A number of supersymmetric Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity theories are known to be described (in the Euclidean path integral formulation) by double-scaled random matrix models. Such matrix models can be characterized using a certain ``string equation''. It was shown recently that in extended supergravity, when the number of BPS states scales as ${\rm e}^{S_0}$, where $S_0$ is the extremal entropy, a special ansatz for the leading order solution of the string equation yields the supergravity spectrum. Somewhat miraculously, the construction showed that the functional form of the non-BPS (continuum) sector predicts the precise form of the BPS sector, showing the robustness of the supergravity/matrix-model correspondence. In this paper, we refine the analysis and show that the string equation, combined with some simple requirements on solutions, are powerful tools for constraining the spectrum of extended JT supergravity theories. We re-explore the cases of ${N}{=}2$ and (small) ${N}{=}4$ JT supergravity, and then explore the new cases of spectra from ${N}{=}3$ and large ${N}{=}4$ JT supergravity (recently derived by Heydeman, Shi, and Turiaci) showing that our approach also works naturally for (nearly) all the models. Based on this success, we conjecture that these new supergravity models also have matrix model descriptions. |
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| spellingShingle | Extended JT supergravity and random matrix models: The power of the string equation Johnson, Clifford V. Kolanowski, Maciej High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology A number of supersymmetric Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity theories are known to be described (in the Euclidean path integral formulation) by double-scaled random matrix models. Such matrix models can be characterized using a certain ``string equation''. It was shown recently that in extended supergravity, when the number of BPS states scales as ${\rm e}^{S_0}$, where $S_0$ is the extremal entropy, a special ansatz for the leading order solution of the string equation yields the supergravity spectrum. Somewhat miraculously, the construction showed that the functional form of the non-BPS (continuum) sector predicts the precise form of the BPS sector, showing the robustness of the supergravity/matrix-model correspondence. In this paper, we refine the analysis and show that the string equation, combined with some simple requirements on solutions, are powerful tools for constraining the spectrum of extended JT supergravity theories. We re-explore the cases of ${N}{=}2$ and (small) ${N}{=}4$ JT supergravity, and then explore the new cases of spectra from ${N}{=}3$ and large ${N}{=}4$ JT supergravity (recently derived by Heydeman, Shi, and Turiaci) showing that our approach also works naturally for (nearly) all the models. Based on this success, we conjecture that these new supergravity models also have matrix model descriptions. |
| title | Extended JT supergravity and random matrix models: The power of the string equation |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07185 |