Published December 10, 1987 | Version v1
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Schwinger terms, seagulls and the Virasoro anomaly

Creators

  • 1. Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia (USA). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Karlsruhe Univ. (T.H.) (Germany, F.R.). Inst. fuer Theoretische Physik

Description

A formalism is presented which allows the calculation of anomalous Schwinger terms, seagull terms and the Virasoro anomaly of the bosonic string directly from the Weyl anomaly. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
199
Journal Issue
1
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
57-64
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
19024455
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSONS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; FIELD EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; SCHWINGER TERMS; STRING MODELS; WEYL UNIFIED THEORY
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract DOE-AC02-76ERO-3071; Grant NATO 86/0684