COMMENT ON AMBIGUITIES IN THE HOLOGRAPHIC WEYL ANOMALY

DOI10.1142/S0217732300002164zbMATH Open0968.81072arXivhep-th/0007200MaRDI QIDQ4523563FDOQ4523563

Authors: Masafumi Fukuma, Tadakatsu Sakai 

Publication date: 14 January 2001

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider possible ambiguities in the holographic Weyl anomaly that are caused by local terms in the flow equation. We point out that such ambiguities actually do not give physically meaningful contributions to the Weyl anomaly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0007200

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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