CONFORMAL SYMMETRY AND CENTRAL CHARGES IN 4 DIMENSIONS

被引：124

作者：

ANTONIADIS, I

MAZUR, PO

MOTTOLA, E

机构：

[1] UNIV S CAROLINA,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,COLUMBIA,SC 29208

[2] LOS ALAMOS NATL LAB,DIV THEORET,LOS ALAMOS,NM 87545

来源：

NUCLEAR PHYSICS B | 1992年 / 388卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1016/0550-3213(92)90557-R

中图分类号：

O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];

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摘要：

The trace anomaly of matter in curved space generates an effective action for the conformal factor of the metric tensor in D = 4 dimensions, analogous to the Polyakov action for D = 2. We compute the contributions of the reparameterization ghosts to the central charges for D = 4, as well as the quantum contribution of the conformal factor itself. The ghost contribution satisfies the necessary Wess-Zumino consistency condition only if combined with the spin-2 modes, whose contributions to the trace anomaly we also discuss.

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页码：627 / 647

页数：21

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