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Consistency Between the String Background Field Equation of Motion and the Vanishing of the Conformal Anomaly

G. Curci
(
- INFN, Pisa and
- Pisa U.
)
,
G. Paffuti
(
- CERN
)

Sep, 1986

10 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 286 (1987) 399-408

Published: 1987

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(87)90447-0

Report number:

CERN-TH-4558-86

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

We prove to all orders in bosonic σ-model perturbation theory that at the fixed ultraviolet point the central charge is constant.

MODEL: STRING
FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: SIGMA
NONLINEAR
FIELD THEORY: TWO-DIMENSIONAL
FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
RENORMALIZATION GROUP: BETA FUNCTION
PERTURBATION THEORY: HIGHER-ORDER
RENORMALIZATION: REGULARIZATION
ANOMALY: CONFORMAL
FIELD THEORY: CENTRAL CHARGE

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