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On the chirality of a discrete Dirac-K\"ahler equation

Mathematical Physics 2016-09-16 v1 Combinatorics math.MP

Abstract

We discuss a discrete analogue of the Dirac-K\"{a}hler equation in which chiral properties of the continual counterpart are captured. We pay special attention to a discrete Hodge star operator. To build one a combinatorial construction of double complex is used. We describe discrete exterior calculus operations on a double comlex and obtain the discrete Dirac-K\"{a}hler equation using these tools. Self-dual and anti-self-dual discrete inhomogeneous forms are presented. The chiral invariance of the massless discrete Dirac-K\"{a}hler equation is shown. Moreover, in the massive case we prove that a discrete Dirac-K\"{a}hler operator flips the chirality.

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@article{arxiv.1411.7673,
  title  = {On the chirality of a discrete Dirac-K\"ahler equation},
  author = {Volodymyr Sushch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7673},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1307.1220