Conformal anomaly of Wilson surface observables – a field theoretical computation
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We make an exact field theoretical computation of the conformal anomaly for two-dimensional submanifold observables. By including a scalar field in the definition for the Wilson surface, as appropriate for a spontaneously broken A1 theory, we get a conformal anomaly which is such that N times it is equal to the anomaly that was computed in hep-th/9901021 in the large N limit and which relied on the AdSCFT correspondence. We also show how the spherical surface observable can be expressed as a conformal anomaly. [email protected]
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