The one-loop effective action and trace anomaly in four dimensions

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)00585-3zbMath0990.81718arXivhep-th/9404187OpenAlexW2073724376MaRDI QIDQ1571534

G. A. Vilkovisky, V. V. Zhytnikov, Andrei O. Barvinsky, Yuri V. Gusev

Publication date: 10 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9404187

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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