Pure three-dimensional gravity is a renormalizable theory with two
free parameters labelled by GG
and \LambdaΛ.
As a consequence, correlation functions of the boundary stress tensor in
AdS_33
are uniquely fixed in terms of one dimensionless parameter, which is the
central charge of the Virasoro algebra. The same argument implies that
AdS_33
gravity at a finite radial cutoff is a renormalizable theory, but now
with one additional parameter corresponding to the cutoff location. This
theory is conjecturally dual to a T\overline{T}TT¯-deformed
CFT, assuming that such theories actually exist. To elucidate this, we
study the quantum theory of boundary gravitons living on a cutoff planar
boundary and the associated correlation functions of the boundary stress
tensor. We compute stress tensor correlation functions to two-loop order
(GG
being the loop counting parameter), extending existing tree level
results. This is made feasible by the fact that the boundary graviton
action simplifies greatly upon making a judicious field redefinition,
turning into the Nambu-Goto action. After imposing Lorentz invariance,
the correlators at this order are found to be unambiguous up to a single
undetermined renormalization parameter.