Conformal anomalies and the Einstein field equations

Abstract

Abstract We compute corrections to the Einstein field equations which are induced by the anomalous effective actions associated to the type A conformal anomaly, both for the (non-local) Riegert action, as well as for the local action with dilaton. In all cases considered we find that these corrections can be very large.

Keywords

• Classical Theories of Gravity
• Conformal and W Symmetry