Canonical formalism for simplicial gravity

Abstract

We summarise a recently introduced general canonical formulation of discrete systems which is fully equivalent to the covariant formalism. This framework can handle varying phase space dimensions and is applied to simplicial gravity in particular.

4 pages, 5 figures, based on a talk given at Loops '11 in Madrid, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)

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• Canonical simplicial gravity
• Dirac-like approach for consistent discretizations of classical constrained theories

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