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MiS Preprint
36/2005
A Variational Principle in Discrete Space-Time - Existence of Minimizers
Felix Finster
Abstract
We formulate a variational principle for a collection of projectors in an indefinite inner product space. The existence of minimizers is proved under general assumptions.
