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A Gravitational Effective Action on a Finite Triangulation

Albert Ko, Martin Rocek

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0512293

Abstract

We construct a function of the edge-lengths of a triangulated surface whose variation under a rescaling of all the edges that meet at a vertex is the defect angle at that vertex. We interpret this function as a gravitational effective action on the triangulation, and the variation as a trace anomaly.

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