One-loop effective potential in 2D dilaton gravity on hyperbolic plane

Abstract

The one-loop effective potential in $2D$ dilaton gravity in conformal gauge on the topologically non-trivial plane $\reals \times S^1$ and on the hyperbolic plane $H^2/\Gamma$ is calculated. For arbitrary choice of the tree scalar potential it is shown, that the one-loop effective potential explicitly depends on the reference metric (through the dependence on the radius of the torus or the radius of $H^2/\Gamma$). This phenomenon is absent only for some special choice of the tree scalar potential corresponding to the Liouville potential and leading to one-loop ultraviolet finite theory. The effective equations are discussed and some interpretation of the reference metric dependence of the effective potential is made.