Energy-Momentum-Tensor Trace Anomaly in Spin 1/2 Quantum Electrodynamics

Dec, 1976
34 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 15 (1977) 1712
Report number:
  • COO-2220-77-REV,
  • COO-2220-77

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Abstract: (APS)
We relate the energy-momentum-tensor trace anomaly in spin-1/2 quantum electrodynamics to the functions β(α), δ(α) defined through the Callan-Symanzik equations, and prove finiteness of θμν when the anomaly is taken into account.
Note:
  • Revised version
  • FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL
  • QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS: FERMION
  • TENSOR: ENERGY-MOMENTUM
  • FIELD EQUATIONS
  • EXCHANGE: TWO-PHOTON
  • RENORMALIZATION GROUP: CALLAN-SYMANZIK EQUATION
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