Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-06-18
Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 104022
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
32 pages. LateX file. LateX twice
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.104022
We present a general method of deriving the effective action for conformal anomalies in any even dimension, which satisfies the Wess-Zumino consistency condition by construction. The method relies on defining the coboundary operator of the local Weyl group, and giving a cohomological interpretation to counterterms in the effective action in dimensional regularization with respect to this group. Non-trivial cocycles of the Weyl group arise from local functionals that are Weyl invariant in and only in the physical even integer dimension. In the physical dimension the non-trivial cocycles generate covariant non-local action functionals characterized by sensitivity to global Weyl rescalings. The non-local action so obtained is unique up to the addition of trivial cocycles and Weyl invariant terms, both of which are insensitive to global Weyl rescalings. These distinct behaviors under rigid dilations can be used to distinguish between infrared relevant and irrelevant operators in a generally covariant manner. Variation of the $d=4$ non-local effective action yields two new conserved geometric stress tensors with local traces. The method may be extended to any even dimension by making use of the general construction of conformal invariants given by Fefferman and Graham. As a corollary, conformal field theory behavior of correlators at the asymptotic infinity of either anti-de Sitter or de Sitter spacetimes follows, i.e. AdS$_{d+1}$ or deS$_{d+1}$/CFT$_d$ correspondence. The same construction naturally selects all infrared relevant terms (and only those terms) in the low energy effective action of gravity in any even integer dimension. The infrared relevant terms arising from the known anomalies in d=4 imply that the classical Einstein theory is modified at large distances.
Mazur Pawel O.
Mottola Emil
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