A discrete Bochner-Martinelli formula (Q537656)

Continuous Clifford analysis offers a function theory which is a higher dimensional analogue of the theory of the holomorphic functions of one complex variable. It studies so-called monogenic functions (null solutions of the Dirac operator), which are an appropriate higher dimensional analogue of holomorphic functions. Nowadays, several authors are interested in finding discrete counterparts of various basic results of continuous Clifford analysis, since finite difference operators are more suitable to an adequate numerical treatment of problems than continuous ones. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss an analogue of the classical Bochner-Martinelli formula for discrete holomorphic functions. In the even dimensional case the discrete Dirac equation may be reduced to the so-called discrete isotonic Dirac system in which suitable Dirac operators appear from both sides in half the dimension. This is an appropriate framework for the development of a discrete Bochner-Martinelli formula for discrete holomorphic functions on the simplest of all graphs, the rectangular \(\mathbb{Z}^m\) one. Two lower-dimensional cases are considered explicitly to illustrate the closed analogy with the theory of continuous variables and the developed discrete scheme.