Comments on trace anomaly matching

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ad0012arXiv2307.14957OpenAlexW4387328404MaRDI QIDQ6059137

Adam Schwimmer, Stefan J. Theisen

Publication date: 2 November 2023

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14957

zbMATH Keywords

CFTQFTtrace anomalies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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