A discrete model of the Dirac-K\"{a}hler equation

Abstract

We construct a new discrete analog of the Dirac-K\"{a}hler equation in which some key geometric aspects of the continuum counterpart are captured. We describe a discrete Dirac-K\"{a}hler equation in the intrinsic notation as a set of difference equations and prove several statements about its decomposition into difference equations of Duffin type. We study an analog of gauge transformations for the massless discrete Dirac-K\"{a}hler equations.