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The heat kernel for deformed spheres
We derive the asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel for a Laplace operator
acting on deformed spheres. We calculate the coefficients of the heat kernel
expansion on two- and three-dimensional deformed spheres as functions of
deformation parameters. We find that under some deformation the conformal
anomaly for free scalar fields on and is canceled.Comment: 10 pages, latex, no figure