%0 Journal Article %T Actions for the bosonic string with the curved worldsheet %A Kamani %A Davoud %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332008000200010 %X at first we introduce an action for the string, which leads to a worldsheet that always is curved. for this action we study the poincar¨¦ symmetry and the associated conserved currents. then, a generalization of the above action, which contains an arbitrary function of the two-dimensional scalar curvature, will be introduced. an extra scalar field enables us to modify these actions to weyl invariant models. %K curved worldsheet %K 2d scalar curvature %K poincar¨¦ symmetry. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332008000200010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en