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arxiv: 1809.06681 · v1 · pith:PETDUBCJnew · submitted 2018-09-18 · ✦ hep-th

Conformal Anomaly for Non-Conformal Scalar Fields

Lorenzo Casarin , Hadi Godazgar , Hermann Nicolai This is my paper
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We give a general definition of the conformal anomaly for theories that are not classically Weyl invariant and show that this definition yields a quantity that is both finite and local. As an example we study the conformal anomaly for a non-minimally coupled massless scalar and show that our definition coincides with results obtained using the heat kernel method.

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