Ambiguity in the evaluation of the effective action on the cone
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-08-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
An ambiguity in the computation of the one-loop effective action for fields living on a cone is illustrated. It is shown that the ambiguity arises due to the non-commutativity of the regularization of ultraviolet and (conical) boundary divergencies.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9807184,
title = {Ambiguity in the evaluation of the effective action on the cone},
author = {D. Iellici and E. S. Moreira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9807184},
year = {2016}
}
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