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Trace anomaly in the field-antifield formalism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The field-antifield quantization method is used to calculate the trace anomaly for a massless scalar field in a curved background, by means of the zeta function regularization procedure.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9504039,
  title  = {Trace anomaly in the field-antifield formalism},
  author = {J. Barcelos-Neto and N. R. F. Braga and S. M. de Souza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9504039},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages, Latex

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