Trace anomaly in the field - antifield formalism

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/025MaRDI QIDQ4881547zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Barcelos-Neto, Nelson R. F. Braga, S. M. De Souza

Publication date 9 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504039

zbMATH Keywords

massless scalar fieldzeta function regularizationcurved backgroundtrace anomalyfield-antifield quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: The field-antifield quantization method is used to calculate the trace anomaly for a massless scalar field in a curved background, by means of the zeta function regularization procedure.

Recommendations

• From tracial anomalies to anomalies in quantum field theory
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 806730
• Trace anomaly for non-relativistic fermions
• Anomalies and invertible field theories
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1779843
• Aspects of anomalies in field theory
• The trace anomaly of the \((2,0)\) tensor multiplet in background gauge fields
• The trace anomaly and the gravitational coupling of an anomalous \(U(1)\)
• Generalized gaugings and the field-antifield formalism

This page was built for publication: Trace anomaly in the field - antifield formalism

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4881547)