Universal features of holographic anomalies
Author(s) -
A. Schwimmer,
Stefan Theisen
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/001
Subject(s) - normalization (sociology) , conformal map , gravitation , trace (psycholinguistics) , conformal anomaly , theoretical physics , physics , algebraic number , dimension (graph theory) , type (biology) , gravitational field , mathematics , conformal field theory , pure mathematics , classical mechanics , mathematical analysis , geology , philosophy , linguistics , sociology , anthropology , paleontology
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
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