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The Brown-Henneaux's central charge from the path-integral boundary condition

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive Brown-Henneaux's commutation relation and central charge in the framework of the path integral. If we use the leading part of the asymptotic symmetry to derive the Ward-Takahashi identity, we can see the central charge arises from the fact that the boundary condition of the path integral is not invariant under the transformation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011010,
  title  = {The Brown-Henneaux's central charge from the path-integral boundary condition},
  author = {Hiroaki Terashima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011010},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, sign errors in Eq.(18) are corrected, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B