2003/09/05 by Adam Schwimmer, A. Schwimmer, Stefan Theisen +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/001
published as JHEP 0310 (2003) 001 · 17 pages, harvmac
arxiv created 2003/09/05 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the mechanism by which gravitational actions reproduce the trace anomalies of the holographically related conformal field theories. Two universal features emerge: a) the ratios of type B trace anomalies in any even dimension are independent of the gravitational action, being uniquely determined by the underlying algebraic structure b) the normalization of the type A and the overall normalization of the type B anomalies are given by action dependent expressions with the dimension dependence completely fixed.