Universal Features of Holographic Anomalies
arXiv:hep-th/0309064 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/001
Abstract
We study the mechanism by which gravitational actions reproduce the trace anomalies of the holographically related conformal field theories. Two universal features emerge: a) the ratios of type B trace anomalies in any even dimension are independent of the gravitational action, being uniquely determined by the underlying algebraic structure b) the normalization of the type A and the overall normalization of the type B anomalies are given by action dependent expressions with the dimension dependence completely fixed.
17 pages, harvmac