Conformal Anomaly Of Submanifold Observables In AdS/CFT Correspondence

1999/01/06 by C. Robin Graham, Edward Witten · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00055-3

published as Nucl.Phys.B546:52-64,1999 · 11 pp

arxiv created 1999/01/06 · arxiv updated 2010/04/07

Abstract

We analyze the conformal invariance of submanifold observables associated with k-branes in the AdS/CFT correspondence. For odd k, the resulting observables are conformally invariant, and for even k, they transform with a conformal anomaly that is given by a local expression which we analyze in detail for k=2

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