20 YEARS OF THE WEYL ANOMALY

被引：451

作者：

DUFF, MJ

机构：

[1] Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, Texas A and M University, College Station

来源：

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY | 1994年 / 11卷 / 06期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1088/0264-9381/11/6/004

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

In 1973 two Salam proteges (Derek Capper and the author) discovered that the conformal invariance under Weyl rescalings of the metric tensor g(munu)(x) --> OMEGA2(x)g(munu)(x) displayed by classical massless-field systems in interaction with gravity no longer survives in the quantum theory. Since then these Weyl anomalies have found a variety of applications in black-hole physics, cosmology, string theory and statistical mechanics. We give a nostalgic review.

引用

页码：1387 / 1403

页数：17

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