Exact Bianchi identity in Regge gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/24/013MaRDI QIDQ4660909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Geoff Kagel, Herbert W. Hamber

Publication date 4 April 2005

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0107031

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: In the continuum the Bianchi identity implies a relationship between different components of the curvature tensor, thus ensuring the internal consistency of the gravitational field equations. In this paper an exact form for the Bianchi identity in Regge's discrete formulation of gravity is derived, by considering appropriate products of rotation matrices constructed around null-homotopic paths. It implies an algebraic relationship between deficit angles belonging to neighboring hinges. As in the continuum, the derived identity is valid for arbitrarily curved manifolds, without a restriction to the weak field, small curvature limit, but is in general not linear in the curvatures.

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