Conformal anomaly in a vector field model with auxiliary scalar field

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The conformal anomaly has well-known ambiguities related to the possible schemes of regularization and renormalization. In case of dimensional regularization, one of the options is to formulate the theory as conformal in the dimension D ≠ 4. For a gauge vector field this can be done in several ways and one of the options is to introduce an auxiliary scalar playing the role of a compensator. The advantage of this approach is that it preserves gauge symmetry and avoids problems with possible violation of unitarity. We explore the consequences of introducing such an auxiliary field for the anomaly and anomaly-induced action. It is shown that the new scalar degree of freedom gains an independent dynamics after taking the 4D limit. The remnant scalar, also, demonstrates some interesting properties.

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@misc{oliveira2026conformal,
  title = {{Conformal anomaly in a vector field model with auxiliary scalar field}},
  author = {Samuel W. P. Oliveira and Públio Rwany B. R. do Vale and Ilya L. Shapiro},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.20427},
  eprint = {2605.20427},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20427},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Conformal anomaly in a vector field model with auxiliary scalar field
AU  - Samuel W. P. Oliveira
AU  - Públio Rwany B. R. do Vale
AU  - Ilya L. Shapiro
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/16
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20427
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20427
AB  - The conformal anomaly has well-known ambiguities related to the possible schemes of regularization and renormalization. In case of dimensional regularization, one of the options is to formulate the theory as conformal in the dimension D ≠ 4. For a gauge vector field this can be done in several ways and one of the options is to introduce an auxiliary scalar playing the role of a compensator. The advantage of this approach is that it preserves gauge symmetry and avoids problems with possible violation of unitarity. We explore the consequences of introducing such an auxiliary field for the anomaly and anomaly-induced action. It is shown that the new scalar degree of freedom gains an independent dynamics after taking the 4D limit. The remnant scalar, also, demonstrates some interesting properties.
ER  -

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