Exactly solvable models of two-dimensional dilaton gravity and quantum eternal black holes

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Abstract
A new approach to the exact solvability of dilaton gravity theories is suggested which appeals directly to the structure of field equations. It is shown that black holes regular at the horizon are static and their metric is found explicitly. If a metric possesses singularities the whole spacetime can be divided into different sheets with one horizon on each sheet between neighboring singularities with a finite value of the dilaton field (additional horizons may arise at an infinite value of it), neighboring sheets being glued along the singularity. The position of the singularities coincides with the values of the dilaton in solutions with a constant dilaton field. Quantum corrections to the Hawking temperature vanish. For a wide subset of these models the relationship between the total energy and the total entropy of the quantum finite size system is the same as in the classical limit. For another subset the metric itself does not acquire quantum corrections. The present paper generalizes Solodukhin’s results on the RST model in that instead of a particular model we deal with whole classes of them. Apart from this, the found models exhibit some qualitatively new properties which are absent in the RST model. The most important one is that there exist quantum black holes with geometry regular everywhere including infinity.