Trace anomaly in the field-antifield formalism
J. Barcelos-Neto, N.R.F. Braga, S.M. de Souza
TL;DR
This paper uses the field-antifield formalism and zeta function regularization to compute the trace anomaly for a massless scalar field in curved spacetime.
Contribution
It applies the field-antifield quantization method to derive the trace anomaly, providing a novel approach in curved backgrounds.
Findings
Calculated the trace anomaly using the field-antifield formalism.
Demonstrated the effectiveness of zeta function regularization in this context.
Provided explicit results for a massless scalar field in curved spacetime.
Abstract
The field-antifield quantization method is used to calculate the trace anomaly for a massless scalar field in a curved background, by means of the zeta function regularization procedure.
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