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Question on the Existence of Gravitational Anomalies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

The existence of gravitational anomalies claimed by Alvarez-Gaume and Witten is examined critically. It is pointed out that they were unaware of the essential difference between T-product quantities and T*-product quantities. Field equations and, therefore, the Noether theorem are, in general, violated in the case of T*-product quantities, that is, those directly calculable from Feynman integrals. In the 2-dimensional case, it is explicitly confirmed that the energy-momentum tensor is strictly conserved if the above stated property of the T*-product quantities is correctly taken into account. The non-existence of gravitational anomalies is explicitly demonstrated for the BRS-formulated 2-dimensional quantum gravity in the Heisenberg picture.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0503172,
  title  = {Question on the Existence of Gravitational Anomalies},
  author = {Mitsuo Abe and Noboru Nakanishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0503172},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, PTPTeX