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General heat kernel coefficients for massless free spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field

arXiv:1709.08063 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X1850063X

Abstract

We review the general heat kernel method for the Dirac spinor field as an elementary example in any arbitrary background. We, then compute the first three Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for the massless free spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field without imposing any limitations on the background geometry.

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