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

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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