General solutions of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition for the Weyl anomalies

dc.creatorBoulanger, Nicolas
dc.date2007-04-19
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dc.descriptionThe general solutions of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition for the conformal (or Weyl, or trace) anomalies are derived. The solutions are obtained, in arbitrary dimensions, by explicitly computing the cohomology of the corresponding Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin differential in the space of integrated local functions at ghost number unity. This provides a purely algebraic, regularization-independent classification of the Weyl anomalies in arbitrary dimensions. The so-called type-A anomaly is shown to satisfy a non-trivial descent of equations, similarly to the non-Abelian chiral anomaly in Yang-Mills theory.
dc.description9 pages. RevTeX file
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2472
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2472
dc.identifierJHEP0707:069,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/069
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/205605
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleGeneral solutions of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition for the Weyl anomalies
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