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Trace anomaly of the conformal gauge field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

The proposed by Bastianelli and van Nieuwenhuizen new method of calculations of trace anomalies is applied in the conformal gauge field case. The result is then reproduced by the heat equation method. An error in previous calculation is corrected. It is pointed out that the introducing gauge symmetries into a given system by a field-enlarging transformation can result in unexpected quantum effects even for trivial configurations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9307060,
  title  = {Trace anomaly of the conformal gauge field},
  author = {Jan Sladkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9307060},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, LaTeX file, BI-TP 93/34