Weyl cohomology and the effective action for conformal anomalies

Physical Review D

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2001, Pages

  Mazur, Pawel O ^a   Mottola, Emil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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