Comment on Chiral and Conformal Anomalies
- 30 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (26), 1733-1736
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.1733
Abstract
It is shown that the trace anomaly is also identified with the Jacobian factor for the functional measure under the conformal transformation in the path-integral formalism. The path-integral formulation of anomalous Ward-Takahashi identities is then translated into a simple algebraic characterization of chiral and conformal anomalies. This exemplifies some of the common features shared by the topological and nontopological anomalies.Keywords
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