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Scalar-Tensor Quantum Gravity in Two Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v2

Abstract

We discuss some classical and quantum properties of 2d gravity models involving metric and a scalar field. Different models are parametrized in terms of a scalar potential. We show that a general Liouville-type model with exponential potential and linear curvature coupling is renormalisable at the quantum level while a particular model (corresponding to D=2 graviton-dilaton string effective action and having a black hole solution) is finite. We use the condition of a ``split" Weyl symmetry to suggest possible expressions for the ``effective" action which includes the quantum anomaly term.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9201021,
  title  = {Scalar-Tensor Quantum Gravity in Two Dimensions},
  author = {J. Russo and A. A. Tseytlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9201021},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages