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Conformal Transformations and the Effective Action in the Presence of Boundaries

J.S. Dowker
(
- Manchester U.
)
,
J.P. Schofield
(
- Manchester U.
)

Sep, 1989

28 pages

Published in:

J.Math.Phys. 31 (1990) 808

DOI:

10.1063/1.528814

Report number:

Print-89-0837 (MANCHESTER)

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The conformal properties of the heat kernel expansion are used to determine the local form of the coefficients in a manifold with boundary. The conformal transformation of the effective action is obtained. A novel derivation of the boundary term in the Gauss–Bonnet–Chern theorem is detailed.

field theory
transformation: conformal
Mellin transformation
boundary condition
regularization
expansion: heat kernel
effective action
Gauss-Bonnet term
cohomology

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