Diffeomorphisms, Anomalies and the Fefferman-Graham Ambiguity

Abstract

Using the Weyl transfomations induced by diffeomorphisms we set up a cohomological problem for the Fefferman-Graham coefficients. The cohomologically nontrivial solutions remove the ambiguity and give the nonlocal terms in the effective action responsible for the trace anomalies.

18 pages, harvmac, no figures

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