Herbert W Hamber and Geoff Kagel 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 5915 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/24/013
Herbert W Hamber and Geoff Kagel
Show affiliationsIn 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 the 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. The discrete Bianchi identity implies an algebraic relationship between deficit angles belonging to neighbouring 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.
04.60.Nc Lattice and discrete methods
83C27 Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods
Issue 24 (21 December 2004)
Received 10 June 2004, in final form 18 October 2004
Published 29 November 2004
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