Conformal Anomaly for Non-Conformal Scalar Fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-10-24 v1
Abstract
We give a general definition of the conformal anomaly for theories that are not classically Weyl invariant and show that this definition yields a quantity that is both finite and local. As an example we study the conformal anomaly for a non-minimally coupled massless scalar and show that our definition coincides with results obtained using the heat kernel method.
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@article{arxiv.1809.06681,
title = {Conformal Anomaly for Non-Conformal Scalar Fields},
author = {Lorenzo Casarin and Hadi Godazgar and Hermann Nicolai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06681},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages