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We propose a gravitational energy-momentum tensor of the general relativity obtained using Noethers theorem. It transforms as a tensor under general coordinate transformations. One of the two indices of the gravitational energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-05 Katsutaro Shimizu

Noether's first and second theorems both imply conserved currents that can be identified as an energy-momentum tensor (EMT). The first theorem identifies the EMT as the conserved current associated with global spacetime translations, while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 Adam Freese

It is generally believed that coupling the graviton (a classical Fierz-Pauli massless spin-2 field) to its own energy-momentum tensor successfully recreates the dynamics of the Einstein field equations order by order; however the validity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Luke M. Butcher , Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

We study two different possibilities of constructing the energy-momentum tensors for non-commutative Abelian Proca field, by using (i) general Noether theorem and (ii) coupling to a weak external gravitational field. Both energy-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-01 F. Darabi , F. Naderi

Three objections to the canonical analytical treatment of covariant electromagnetic theory are presented: (i) only half of Maxwell's equations are present upon variation of the fundamental Lagrangian; (ii) the trace of the canonical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-26 Mark Robert Baker

In this work, we investigate the structure and properties of the canonical energy momentum tensor (EMT) across a range of field theories. We begin by developing a unified and systematic method that naturally yields the canonical EMT for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-09 Peir-Ru Wang

We revisit the old problem of the energy-momentum tensor in general relativistic field theories. On the basis of the general covariance we derive a simple equation for the Hilbert and Noether energy-momentum tensors for the scalar and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Akio Hosoya , Shunsuke Fujii

We discuss the relation between canonical and metric energy-momentum tensors for field theories with actions that can depend on the higher derivatives of tensor fields in a flat spacetime. In order to obtain it we use a modification of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-14 R. V. Ilin , S. A. Paston

The energy-momentum tensor of a ferromagnet derived according to the standard prescription of Noether's theorem has a major flaw: the term originating from the spin Berry phase is gauge-dependent. As a consequence, some physical quantities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Sayak Dasgupta , Oleg Tchernyshyov

We reexamine the energy-momentum tensor in classical electrodynamics from the perspective of spacetime-dependent translations, i.e., diffeomorphism invariance in flat spacetime. When energy-momentum is identified through local translations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Taeseung Choi

For electromagnetic field theories, canonical energy-momentum conservation laws can be derived from the underpinning spacetime translation symmetry according to the Noether procedure. However, the canonical Energy-Momentum Tensors (EMTs)…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Peifeng Fan , Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin

Local symmetry transformations play an important role for establishing the existence and form of a conserved (Noether) current in systems with a global continuous symmetry. We explain how this fact leads to the existence of linear relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Tomas Brauner

We are concerned with the precise modalities by which mathematical constructions related to energy-tensors can be adapted to a tetrad-affine setting. We show that, for fairly general gauge field theories formulated in that setting, two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Daniel Canarutto

The problem of the electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor is among the oldest and the most controversial in macroscopic electrodynamics. In the center of the issue is a dispute about the Minkowski and the Abraham tensors for moving media.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-15 Yuri N. Obukhov

The recent detections of gravitational waves by the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors open up new tests of modified gravity theories in the strong-field and dynamical, extreme gravity regime. Such tests rely sensitively on the phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Alexander Saffer , Nicolas Yunes , Kent Yagi

We give an introduction to, and review of, the energy-momentum tensors in classical gauge field theories in Minkowski space, and to some extent also in curved space-time. For the canonical energy-momentum tensor of non-Abelian gauge fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-21 Daniel N. Blaschke , Francois Gieres , Meril Reboud , Manfred Schweda

Through symmetry of the action under global spacetime translations, Noether's first theorem infamously entails an energy-momentum tensor (EMT) that is neither symmetric nor gauge-invariant. In a prior work [Phys. Rev. D 106, 125012 (2022)],…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-25 Adam Freese

A framework is developed which quantifies the local exchange of energy and momentum between matter and the linearized gravitational field. We derive the unique gravitational energy-momentum tensor consistent with this description, and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-26 Luke M. Butcher , Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

The Noether currents are derived in a generic metric-affine theory of gravity, and the holographic nature of the gravitational entropy and energy-momentum is clarified. The main result is the verification of the canonical resolution to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-17 Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Tomi S. Koivisto

Noether's theorem is reviewed with a particular focus on an intermediate step between global and local gauge and coordinate transformations, namely linear transformations. We rederive the well known result that global symmetry leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Leclerc