The conformal anomaly associated with an operator product acting in rank 1 symmetric spaces

The conformal anomaly and a contribution to the one-loop effective action associated with the product circle times(p)L(p) of the Laplace operators L-p, p=1,2 acting in irreducible rank 1 symmetric spaces are calculated. The explicit form of the zeta functions and the conformal anomaly of the stress-energy momentum tensor is derived. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.