A rederivation of the conformal anomaly for spin-${\frac{1}{2}}$

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/aaba97zbMath1391.83089arXiv1801.01728OpenAlexW3104107220MaRDI QIDQ3177498

Hadi Godazgar, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date: 26 July 2018

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01728

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl anomalyconformal symmetrygravitational anomaly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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