Natural discrete differential calculus in physics

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00271-1MaRDI QIDQ2287841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Carlo Rovelli, Václav Zatloukal

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03026

zbMATH Keywords

field theoryquantum gravitystructure of space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We sharpen a recent observation by Tim Maudlin: differential calculus is a natural language for physics only if additional structure, like the definition of a Hodge dual or a metric, is given; but the discrete version of this calculus provides this additional structure for free.

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