Trace anomaly for chiral fermions via Hadamard subtraction

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2019)223zbMath1427.83100arXiv1904.10982OpenAlexW3105767401WikidataQ126985547 ScholiaQ126985547MaRDI QIDQ2283511

Markus B. Fröb, Jochen Zahn

Publication date: 2 January 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10982

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryanomalies in field and string theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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