6D trace anomalies from quantum mechanical path integrals - art. no. 065005

We use the recently developed dimensional regularization (DR) scheme for qu antum mechanical path integrals in curved space and with a finite time inte rval to compute the trace anomalies for a scalar field in six dimensions. T his application provides a further test of the DR method applied to quantum mechanics. It shows the efficiency in higher loop computations of having t o deal with covariant counterterms only, as required by the DR scheme.