A CONTINUUM STRING MODEL FOR D-GREATER-THAN-1

The non-critical string (2D gravity coupled to the matter with central charge D) is quantized by taking care of both diffeomorphism and Weyl symmetries. In incorporating the gauge fixing with respect to the Weyl symmetry, through the condition R(g) = const., one modifies the classical result of Distler and Kawai. In particular one obtains the real string tension for an arbitrary value of central charge D.