Spin-(3/2 gravitational trace anomaly
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- 15 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 38 (12) , 3715-3721
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.38.3715
Abstract
It is argued that previous computations of the spin-(3/2 anomaly have spurious contributions, as there is Weyl-invariance breaking already at the classical level. The genuine, gauge-invariant, spin-(3/2 gravitational trace anomaly is computed here.Keywords
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