The dilaton Wess-Zumino action in higher dimensions

Abstract

We present a general formula for the Wess-Zumino action associated with the Weyl anomaly, given in a curved background for any even number of dimensions. The result is obtained by considering a finite Weyl transformation of counterterms in dimensional regularization.

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