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No Conformal Anomaly in Unimodular Gravity

Enrique Alvarez
(
- CERN
)
,
Mario Herrero-Valea
(
- Madrid, IFT and
- Madrid, Autonoma U.
)

Jan, 2013

20 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 87 (2013) 084054

Published: Apr 23, 2013

e-Print:

1301.5130 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.87.084054

Report number:

IFT-UAM-CSIC-12-116,
FTUAM-12-117

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Abstract: (arXiv)

The conformal invariance of unimodular gravity survives quantum corrections, even in the presence of conformal matter. Unimodular gravity can actually be understood as a certain truncation of the full Einstein-Hilbert theory, where in the Einstein frame the metric tensor enjoys unit determinant. Our result is compatible with the idea that the corresponding restriction in the functional integral is consistent as well.

Note:

20 pages; misprints corrected

gravitation: unimodular
invariance: conformal
anomaly: conformal
correction: quantum
Einstein-Hilbert

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