2020/07/27 by Dowker, J. S.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2007.13670
The conformal anomaly is computed on even d--spheres for a p--form propagating according to the Branson--Gover higher derivative, conformally covariant operators. The system is set up on a q--deformed sphere and the conformal anomaly is computed as a rational function of the derivative order, 2k, and of q. The anomaly is shown to be an extremum at the round sphere (q=1) only for k