Continuous matter fields in Regge calculus

Abstract

We find that the continuous matter fields are ill-defined in Regge calculus in the physical 4D theory since the corresponding effective action has infinite terms unremovable by the UV renormalisation procedure. These terms are connected with the singular nature of the curvature distribution in Regge calculus, namely, with the presence in d>2 dimensions of the (d-3)-dimensional simplices where the (d-2)-dimensional ones carrying different conical singularities are meeting. Possible resolution of this difficulty is discretisation of matter fields in Regge background.