nLab gravitational anomaly

Idea

The standard quantum anomaly induced by fermions coupled to a dynamical Riemannian metric/field of gravity.

Explicit discussion as an anomalous action functional is in (Freed 86, examples 1.5).

Related concepts

• conformal anomaly

References

• Daniel Freed, Determinants, torsion, and strings, Comm. Math. Phys. 107:3 (1986) 483-513. (Euclid)

For more references see at quantum anomaly.