Boundary Anomalies and Correlation Functions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-11-07 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
It was shown recently that boundary terms of conformal anomalies recover the universal contribution to the entanglement entropy and also play an important role in the boundary monotonicity theorem of odd-dimensional quantum field theories. Motivated by these results, we investigate relationships between boundary anomalies and the stress tensor correlation functions in conformal field theories. In particular, we focus on how the conformal Ward identity and the renormalization group equation are modified by boundary central charges. Renormalized stress tensors induced by boundary Weyl invariants are also discussed, with examples in spherical and cylindrical geometries.
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@article{arxiv.1604.02138,
title = {Boundary Anomalies and Correlation Functions},
author = {Kuo-Wei Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02138},
year = {2016}
}
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25 pages