On Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein-Hilbert action in two dimensions
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Abstract It is shown that the well-known triviality of the Einstein field equations in two dimensions is not a sufficient condition for the Einstein-Hilbert action to be a total divergence, if the general covariance is to be preserved, that is, a coordinate system is not fixed. Consequently, a Hamiltonian formulation is possible without any modification of the two dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action. We find the resulting constraints and the corresponding gauge transfromations of the metric tensor.
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