On the Weyl anomaly of Wilson surfaces
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-02-03 v2
Abstract
We compute the Weyl anomaly for an abelian Wilson surface by using a regularization that respects the gauge invariance. We then study the loop space on which lives a one-form connection. We restrict ourselves to the subsector consisting of only circular loops, and derive a Maxwell type action on this restricted loop space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310037,
title = {On the Weyl anomaly of Wilson surfaces},
author = {Andreas Gustavsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310037},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
11 pages. A discussion of a previous, presumably gauge dependent renormalization is included. Version to appear in JHEP