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Diffeomorphisms, anomalies and the Fefferman-Graham ambiguity

2000/08/09 by A. Schwimmer, Stefan Theisen, S. Theisen · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/032

published as JHEP 0008 (2000) 032 · 18 pages, harvmac, no figures

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Abstract

Using the Weyl transfomations induced by diffeomorphisms we set up a cohomological problem for the Fefferman-Graham coefficients. The cohomologically nontrivial solutions remove the ambiguity and give the nonlocal terms in the effective action responsible for the trace anomalies.

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