Consistency conditions and trace anomalies in six dimensions

Details Consistency conditions and trace anomalies in six dimensions Consistency conditions and trace anomalies in six dimensions

2000-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0007222v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 18 (2001) 793-806

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

16 pages, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/18/5/303

Conformally invariant quantum field theories develop trace anomalies when defined on curved backgrounds. We study again the problem of identifying all possible trace anomalies in d=6 by studying the consistency conditions to derive their 10 independent solutions. It is known that only 4 of these solutions represent true anomalies, classified as one type A anomaly, given by the topological Euler density, and three type B anomalies, made up by three independent Weyl invariants. However, we also present the explicit expressions of the remaining 6 trivial anomalies, namely those that can be obtained by the Weyl variation of local functionals. The knowledge of the latter is in general necessary to disentangle the universal coefficients of the type A and B anomalies from calculations performed on concrete models.

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