Conformal Anomaly for Free Scalar Propagation on Curved Bounded Manifolds
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-06 v1
Abstract
The trace anomaly for free propagation in the context of a conformally invariant scalar field theory defined on a curved manifold of positive constant curvature with boundary is evaluated through use of an asymptotic heat kernel expansion. In addition to their direct physical significance the results are also of relevance to the holographic principle and to Quantum Cosmology.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409163,
title = {Conformal Anomaly for Free Scalar Propagation on Curved Bounded Manifolds},
author = {George Tsoupros},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409163},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
8 pages. To appear in General Relativity and Gravitation