CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, vol.11, no.10, pp.2575-2583, 1994 (SCI-Expanded)
We discuss how theories of dilaton gravity can be constructed in terms of a torsionfree but non-metric-compatible connection and explore the nature of connection-induced dilaton couplings to gravity when the theory is reformulated in terms of the Levi-Civita connection. Exact classical solutions are presented in the context of a string-inspired dilaton model in two dimensions.