Comment on Ambiguities in the Holographic Weyl Anomaly

Abstract

We consider possible ambiguities in the holographic Weyl anomaly that are caused by local terms in the flow equation. We point out that such ambiguities actually do not give physically meaningful contributions to the Weyl anomaly.

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