Stress tensor conformal anomaly for Weinberg-type fields in curved spacetimes
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 12 (3) , 337-357
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/12/3/009
Abstract
The coefficient of the Rmu nu Rmu nu -1/3R2 part of the conformal anomaly of the stress tensor for arbitrary spin Weinberg-type fields in a curved background spacetime is calculated. The method used involves obtaining terms in the De-Witt-Schwinger expansion for the two-point function by explicit calculation of the complete two-point function in de Sitter space.Keywords
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