Conformal anomaly for non-conformal scalar fields

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2018.10.034zbMATH Open1403.81054arXiv1809.06681OpenAlexW2890100313WikidataQ129060583 ScholiaQ129060583MaRDI QIDQ1630757FDOQ1630757

Authors: Lorenzo Casarin, Hadi Godazgar, Hermann Nicolai 

Publication date: 10 December 2018

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a general definition of the conformal anomaly for theories that are not classically Weyl invariant and show that this definition yields a quantity that is both finite and local. As an example we study the conformal anomaly for a non-minimally coupled massless scalar and show that our definition coincides with results obtained using the heat kernel method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06681

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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