Comments on Trace Anomaly Matching

The structure of type A and B trace anomalies is reanalyzed in terms of the universal behaviour of dimension -2 invariant amplitudes. Based on it a general argument for trace anomaly matching between the unbroken and broken phases of a CFT is given. The structure of moduli trace anomalies and their transformations under source reparametrizations is discussed in detail.

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