Abstract
The conformal trace anomalies for massless scalar, "neutrino," and photon fields propagating in an arbitrary Riemannian space-time are derived. They are seen to be a consequence of the subtraction, during renormalization, of a finite term, , which violates the scale invariance of the massless theory. A general derivation of the scalar anomaly is given based on the -function regularization developed earlier.
- Received 18 January 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.16.3390
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