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Conformal properties of the heat-kernel expansion. Application to the effective Lagrangian

J. S. Dowker

  • Department of Theoretical Physics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England

Phys. Rev. D 39, 1235 – Published 15 February, 1989

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.39.1235

Abstract

Conformal properties of the Minakshisundaram coefficients are developed. As an example of their use we discuss the equivalence of the dimensional and ζ-function regularization treatments of the conformal anomaly and the one-loop effective action for scalar fields.

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