Trace anomaly of dilaton-coupled scalars in two dimensions

Raphael Bousso and Stephen Hawking
Phys. Rev. D 56, 7788 – Published 15 December 1997
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Abstract

Conformal scalar fields coupled to the dilaton appear naturally in two-dimensional models of black hole evaporation. We show that their trace anomaly is (1/24π)[R6(φ)22φ]. It follows that a Russo-Susskind-Thorlacius–type counterterm appears naturally in the one-loop effective action.

  • Received 4 June 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.7788

©1997 American Physical Society

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The Work of Stephen Hawking in Physical Review

To mark the passing of Stephen Hawking, we gathered together his 55 papers in Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters. They probe the edges of space and time, from "Black holes and thermodynamics” to "Wave function of the Universe."

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Raphael Bousso

  • DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, United Kingdom
  • Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4060

Stephen Hawking

  • DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, United Kingdom

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Comment on “Trace anomaly of dilaton-coupled scalars in two dimensions”

W. Kummer, H. Liebl, and D. V. Vassilevich
Phys. Rev. D 58, 108501 (1998)

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