Conformal transformations and the effective action in the presence of boundaries

DOI10.1063/1.528814zbMath0702.53059MaRDI QIDQ3480865

J. Stuart Dowker, J. P. Schofield

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528814

zbMATH Keywords

effective action; heat kernel expansion; conformal transformation; Gauss- Bonnet-Chern theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

58J35: Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds

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