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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

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

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 General Relativity, the issue of defining the gravitational energy contained in a given spatial region is still unresolved, except for particular cases of localized objects where the asymptotic flatness holds for a given spacetime. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Gaetano Lambiase

Non-autonomous non-relativistic mechanics is formulated as Lagrangian and Hamiltonian theory on fibre bundles over the time axis R. Hamiltonian mechanics herewith can be reformulated as particular Lagrangian theory on a momentum phase…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 G. Sardanashvily

A general recipe proposed elsewhere to define, via Noether theorem, the variation of energy for a natural field theory is applied to Einstein-Maxwell theory. The electromagnetic field is analysed in the geometric framework of natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Allemandi , M. Francaviglia , M. Raiteri

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 give a new representation as tempered distribution for the energy-momentum tensor of a system of charged point-particles, which is free from divergent self-interactions, manifestly Lorentz-invariant and symmetric, and conserved. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Lechner , P. A. Marchetti

The Noether procedure carries an inherent ambiguity due to the necessary local extension, no longer a symmetry, of the global symmetry. The gauging should fix the ambiguity once and for all, however, and, for translations, the general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-06 Taeyeon Kim , Piljin Yi

In this article, we will review Noether's Theorems and their application in General Relativity. We will present Noether's Theorems in their original form and restate them as they are usually applied to physics. Some basic equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Robert J. McLeod

A Noether-enhanced Legendre transformation from Lagrange densities to energy-momentum tensors is developed into an alternative framework for formulating classical field equations. This approach offers direct access to the Hamiltonian while…

General Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 Hans Christian Öttinger

The symmetric and gauge-invariant energy-momentum tensors for source-free Maxwell and Yang-Mills theories are obtained by means of translations in spacetime via a systematic implementation of Noether's theorem. For the source-free neutral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Merced Montesinos , Ernesto Flores

A simple proof of Noether's first theorem involves the promotion of a constant symmetry parameter $\epsilon$ to an arbitrary function of time, the Noether charge $Q$ is then the coefficient of $\dot\epsilon$ in the variation of the action.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-02 Paul K. Townsend

New symmetry theorems are obtained for field theories formulated in Minkowski spacetime, based on the recognition that such theories should be diffeomorphism invariant. These theorems, which are in fact generalized Noether theorems, have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-10 M. Holman

We clarify the relation among canonical, metric and Belinfante's energy-momentum tensors for general tensor field theories. For any tensor field T, we define a new tensor field $\til {\bm T}$, in terms of which the Belinfante tensor is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Ricardo E. Gamboa Saraví

The first and second Noether theorems are formulated in a general case of reducible degenerate Grassmann-graded Lagrangian theory of even and odd variables on graded bundles. Such Lagrangian theory is characterized by a hierarchy of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 G. Sardanashvily

Hilbert-Noether theorem states that a current associated to diffeomorphism invariance of a Lagrangian vanishes on shell modulo a divergence of an arbitrary superpotential. Application of the Noether procedure to physical Lagrangians yields,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yakov Itin

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

We discuss general properties of the conservation law associated with a local symmetry. Using Noether's theorem and a generalized Belinfante symmetrization procedure in 3+1 dimensions, a symmetric energy-momentum (pseudo) tensor for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Dongsu Bak , D. Cangemi , R. Jackiw

The current paper is devoted to the investigation of the general form of the energy-momentum pseudotensor (pEMT) and the corresponding superpotential for the wide class of theories. The only requirement for such a theory is the general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-15 R. V. Ilin , S. A. Paston