Gauge invariance in simplicial gravity

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)87467-6zbMath0925.83011arXivhep-th/9607153MaRDI QIDQ1349334

Herbert W. Hamber, Ruth M. Williams

Publication date: 5 February 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607153

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational actionFaddeev-Popov determinantcurvature-squared termsdiscrete actionfundamental variablesgravitational functional measurelattice diffeomorphismstriangulated background manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

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