Can time be a discrete dynamical variable?

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)90687-1

Physics Letters B

Volume 122, Issues 3–4, 10 March 1983, Pages 217-220

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Abstract

The possibility that time can be regarded as a discrete dynamical variable is examined through all phases of mechanics: from classical mechanics to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, and to relativistic quantum field theories.

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Nucl. Phys.