English
Related papers

Related papers: Dynamical laws of superenergy in General Relativit…

200 papers

A manifestly covariant, or geometric, field theory for relativistic classical particle-field system is developed. The connection between space-time symmetry and energy-momentum conservation laws for the system is established geometrically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Peifeng Fan , Hong Qin , Jian Liu , Nong Xiang , Zhi Yu

A novel approach to the description of superconductors in thermal equilibrium is developed within a formally exact density-functional framework. The theory is formulated in terms of three ``densities'': the ordinary electron density, the…

This communication is devoted to a brief historical framework and to a comprehensive critical discussion concerning foundational issues of Electrodynamics. Attention is especially focused on the events which, about the end of XIX century,…

General Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Giovanni Romano

We derive an expression for the Maxwell stress tensor in a magnetic dielectric medium specified by its permittivity "epsilon" and permeability "mu." The derivation proceeds from the generalized form of the Lorentz law, which specifies the…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-03 Masud Mansuripur

The field equations of general relativity can be written as first order differential equations in the Weyl tensor, the Weyl tensor in turn can be written as a first order differential equation in a three index tensor called the Lanczos…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-04 Mark D. Roberts

For describing the non-negative gravitational energy-momentum in terms of a pure Bel-Robinson type energy-momentum in a quasilocal 2-surface, both the Bel-Robinson tensor $B$ and tensor $V$ are suitable. We found that this Bel-Robinson type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-17 Lau Loi So

We briefly review of the definitions of the total energy, the total linear momentum and the angular momentum of gravitational field when the cosmological constant is zero. In particular, we show pseudo-tensor's definition of the energy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-29 Xiaoning Wu , Xiao Zhang

We recently developed a local description of the energy, momentum and angular momentum carried by the linearized gravitational field, wherein the gravitational energy-momentum tensor displays positive energy-density and causal energy-flux,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-03 Luke M. Butcher , Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

Maxwell equations provide a complete description of the electromagnetic (EM) phenomena, which have been one of the key fundamental-theories of modern physics, such as electromagnetism, optics, quantum theories, etc. The vacuum permittivity…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Zhiwei Sun

We study the pseudo-local gravitoelectromagnetic stress-energy tensor for an arbitrary gravitational field within the framework of general relativity. It is shown that there exists a current of gravitational energy around a rotating mass.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Mashhoon , J. C. McClune , H. Quevedo

The form of the energy-momentum tensor when a quasimonochromatic field propagates into and through an antireflection-coated, sourceless, transparent, continuous, linear magneto-dielectric medium, initially at rest in the local frame,…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-21 Michael E. Crenshaw

Multiple methods for deriving the energy-momentum tensor for a physical theory exist in the literature. The most common methods are to use Noether's first theorem with the 4-parameter Poincar\'{e} translation, or to write the action in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Mark Robert Baker , Natalia Kiriushcheva , Sergei Kuzmin

Theoretical analyses of radiation pressure and photon momentum in the past 150 years have focused almost exclusively on classical and/or quantum theories of electrodynamics. In these analyses, Maxwell's equations, the properties of…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-01 Masud Mansuripur , Pin Han

Multiple pendulums are investigated numerically and analytically to clarify the nonuniformity of average kinetic energies of particles. The nonuniformity is attributed to the system having constraints and it is consistent with the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tetsuro Konishi , Tatsuo Yanagita

In the article {\it Gen. Rel. Grav.} {\bf 32}, 1633 (2000), by J. G. Pereira and C. M. Zhang, the special relativity energy-momentum tensor was used to discuss the neutrino phase-splitting in a weak gravitational field. However, it would be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. G. Pereira , C. M. Zhang

The standard energy conditions of classical general relativity are (mostly) linear in the stress-energy tensor, and have clear physical interpretations in terms of geodesic focussing, but suffer the significant drawback that they are often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Prado Martin-Moruno , Matt Visser

We consider several tensorial wave equations, specifically the equations of Maxwell, Yang-Mills, and Weyl fields, posed on a curved spacetime, and we establish new energy inequalities under certain one-sided geometric conditions. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-17 Annegret Y. Burtscher , James D. E. Grant , Philippe G. LeFloch

The purpose of the classical Einstein and Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensors is for determining the gravitational energy. Neither of them can guarantee a positive energy in holonomic frames. In the small sphere approximation, it has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Lau Loi So

We present a model of (double) kinetic theory which paves the way to describe matter in a Double Field Theory background. Generalized diffeomorphisms acting on double phase space tensors are introduced. The generalized covariant derivative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-25 Eric Lescano , Nahuel Mirón-Granese

Early energy-momentum investigations for gravitating systems gave reference frame dependent pseudotensors; later the quasilocal idea was developed. Quasilocal energy-momentum can be determined by the Hamiltonian boundary term, which also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. C. Chang , J. M. Nester , C. M. Chen