First order Regge calculus
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-04-06 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Algebra
Abstract
A first order form of Regge calculus is defined in the spirit of Palatini's action for general relativity. The extra independent variables are the interior dihedral angles of a simplex, with conjugate variables the areas of the triangles. There is a discussion of the extent to which these areas can be used to parameterise the space of edge lengths of a simplex.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9404124,
title = {First order Regge calculus},
author = {John W. Barrett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9404124},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages. Revised: text improved for clarity from p5