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arxiv: 1010.1821 · v1 · pith:DWNG75HKnew · submitted 2010-10-09 · ✦ hep-th

Consistent gravitational anomalies for chiral scalars

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keywords actionchiralcohomologicalconsistentgravitationalallowsanomaliesanomaly
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Starting from the Henneaux-Teitelboim action for a chiral scalar, which generalizes to curved space the Floreanini-Jackiw action, we give two simple derivations of the exact consistent gravitational anomaly. The first derivation is through the Schwinger-DeWitt regularization. The second exploits cohomological methods and uses the fact that in dimension two the diffeomorphism transformations are described by a single ghost which allows to climb the cohomological chain in a unique way.

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