Trace anomaly for gravitons
- 15 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 18 (6), 1849-1855
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.18.1849
Abstract
The trace anomaly for gravitons in an arbitrary background space-time is considered for four and six dimensions. The integrated energy-momentum tensor is also computed in six dimensions which allows the single-loop divergences to be calculated.Keywords
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