Universal Features of Holographic Anomalies
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We study the mechanism by which gravitational actions reproduce the trace anomalies of the holographically related conformal field theories. Two universal features emerge: a) the ratios of type B trace anomalies in any even dimension are independent of the gravitational action, being uniquely determined by the underlying algebraic structure b) the normalization of the type A and the overall normalization of the type B anomalies are given by action dependent expressions with the dimension dependence completely fixed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0309064,
title = {Universal Features of Holographic Anomalies},
author = {A. Schwimmer and S. Theisen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0309064},
year = {2009}
}
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17 pages, harvmac