A variational principle in discrete space-time: existence of minimizers

DOI10.1007/S00526-006-0042-0MaRDI QIDQ2369938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Finster

Publication date 21 June 2007

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0503069

zbMATH Keywords

construction of minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: We formulate a variational principle for a collection of projectors in an indefinite inner product space. The existence of minimizers is proved in various situations.

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