Twenty years of the Weyl anomaly
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M J Duff
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Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Classical and Quantum Gravity Create an alert RSS this journal
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M J Duff 1994 Class. Quantum Grav. 11 1387
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In 1973 two Salam protégés (Derek Capper and the author) discovered that the conformal invariance under Weyl rescalings of the metric tensor
displayed by classical massless-field systems in interaction with gravity no longer survives in the quantum theory. Since then these Weyl anomalies have found a variety of applications in black-hole physics, cosmology, string theory and statistical mechanics. We give a nostalgic review. - PACS
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Issue 6 ( 1 June 1994)
Received 9 December 1993
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Twenty years of the Weyl anomaly
M J Duff 1994 Class. Quantum Grav. 11 1387
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