Energy-momentum-tensor trace anomaly in spin-1/2 quantum electrodynamics
- 15 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 15 (6) , 1712-1721
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.15.1712
Abstract
We relate the energy-momentum-tensor trace anomaly in spin-1/2 quantum electrodynamics to the functions , defined through the Callan-Symanzik equations, and prove finiteness of when the anomaly is taken into account.
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