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Energy-momentum conservation and Lipkin's zilch

Optics 2014-08-14 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

As Noether's theorem states any differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. Lipkin introduced the conservation laws of zilches. But the corresponding symmetries are yet to be determined. Here we find a method to determine those symmetries and by direct calculations express the zilch tensor's relation to current-density for nn-dimensional Minkowski space-time. Also, we extend this method to calculate symmetries of conservation of energy-momentum. Finally we show that in the special case of n=4, our general equation governing optical chirality reduces to the continuity equation of optical chirality density and optical chirality flow.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2802,
  title  = {Energy-momentum conservation and Lipkin's zilch},
  author = {H. Lashkari-Ghouchani and M. H. Alizadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2802},
  year   = {2014}
}