Conformal transformations and the effective action in the presence of boundaries
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- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 31 (4) , 808-818
Abstract
The conformal properties of the heat kernel expansion are used to determine the local form of the coefficients in a manifold with boundary. The conformal transformation of the effective action is obtained. A novel derivation of the boundary term in the Gauss–Bonnet–Chern theorem is detailed.Keywords
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