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On the definiteness of the conformal anomaly in nonconformal gauges

W. Mödritsch

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9308074

Abstract

The critical dimension of the bosonic string in the harmonic and the deDonder gauge may be calculated from the time ordered product of two energy momentum tensors. We show that recently found ambiguities within that method in nonconformal gauges can be resolved by a treatment respecting background covariance.

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