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Heat kernel for Newton-Cartan trace anomalies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-03 v1

Abstract

We compute the leading part of the trace anomaly for a free non-relativistic scalar in 2+1 dimensions coupled to a background Newton-Cartan metric. The anomaly is proportional to 1/m, where m is the mass of the scalar. We comment on the implications of a conjectured a-theorem for non-relativistic theories with boost invariance.

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@article{arxiv.1605.08684,
  title  = {Heat kernel for Newton-Cartan trace anomalies},
  author = {Roberto Auzzi and Giuseppe Nardelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08684},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages