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Canonical treatment of two dimensional gravity as an anomalous gauge theory
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✦ hep-th
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gaugebrstdimensionalgravityactionalgebraanomalousapplied
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The extended phase space method of Batalin, Fradkin and Vilkovisky is applied to formulate two dimensional gravity in a general class of gauges. A BRST formulation of the light-cone gauge is presented to reveal the relationship between the BRST symmetry and the origin of $SL(2,R)$ current algebra. From the same principle we derive the conformal gauge action suggested by David, Distler and Kawai.
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