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$T\bar{T}$ Deformations in Curved Space from 4D Chern-Simons Theory (2202.08841v2)
Published 17 Feb 2022 in hep-th
Abstract: In this paper, we shed new light onto $T\bar{T}$-deformations by engineering them on 2D surface defects, supporting chiral and antichiral CFT's, in a 4D Chern-Simons bulk. This approach is motivated by various connections between $T\bar{T}$-deformations, gravity and Chern-Simons theory and suggests that the formalism developed in this paper and the gravity picture of $T\bar{T}$-deformations should be closely related.