A Variational Principle in Discrete Space-Time - Existence of Minimizers

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.

22 pages, LaTeX, clarifying footnote added on page 4

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