  It is believed that the invariance of the generalised diffeomorphisms
prevents any non-trivial dilaton potential from double field theory. It is
therefore difficult to include loop corrections in the formalism. We show that
by redefining a non-local dilaton field, under strong constraint which is
necessary to preserve the gauge invariance of double field theory, the theory
does permit non-constant dilaton potentials and loop corrections. If the fields
have dependence on only one single coordinate, the non-local dilaton is
identical to the ordinary one with an additive constant.
