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Canonical Equivalence of a Generic 2D Dilaton Gravity Model and a Bosonic String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that a canonical tranformation converts, up to a boundary term, a generic 2d dilaton gravity model into a bosonic string theory with a Minkowskian target space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9705145,
  title  = {Canonical Equivalence of a Generic 2D Dilaton Gravity Model and a Bosonic String Theory},
  author = {J. Cruz and J. Navarro-Salas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9705145},
  year   = {2008}
}

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LaTeX file, 9 pages, no figures