Kristan Jensen (SFSU) “Nearly de Sitter gravity”

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abstract: I will discuss a few aspects of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with positive cosmological constant. It may be understood as a toy model for de Sitter quantum gravity, in which one may reliably compute transition amplitudes for the creation or annihilation of a baby universe, sum up gravitational loops, and study the fate of unitarity.