Conformal anomalies and the Einstein field equations

@article{Godazgar2016ConformalAA,
  title={Conformal anomalies and the Einstein field equations},
  author={Hadi Godazgar and Krzysztof A. Meissner and Hermann Nicolai},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2016},
  volume={2017},
  pages={1-21}
}
A bstractWe 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. 
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