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In this paper, we define energy-momentum density as a product of the complex vector electromagnetic field and its complex conjugate. We derive an equation for the spacetime derivative of the energy-momentum density. We show that the scalar…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-07-10 Quirino M. Sugon , Daniel J. McNamara

We give a comprehensive review of various methods to define currents and the energy-momentum tensor in classical field theory, with emphasis on a geometric point of view. The necessity of ``improving'' the expressions provided by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael Forger , Hartmann Römer

The theory of point-particles in classical electrodynamics has a well-known problem of infinite self-energy, and the same is true of quantum electrodynamics. Instead of concluding that there is no such thing as a true point-particle, it is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Andrew T. Hyman

Starting from the energy-momentum of matter and gravitational field in the framework of General Relativity and Teleparallel Gravity, we obtain the energy-momentum complex in flat FRW spacetime. We show that the complex vanishes at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 Habib Abedi , Amir M. Abbassi , Salvatore Capozziello

The Abraham--Minkowski momentum controversy is the outwardly visible symptom of an inconsistency in the use of the energy-momentum tensor in the case of a plane quasimonochromatic field in a simple linear dielectric. We show that the Gordon…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-11-09 Michael E. Crenshaw

In case of the Einstein's gravitation theory and its first order Palatini reformulation, the stress-energy-momentum of gravity has been proved to reduce to the Komar superpotential. We generalize this result to the affine-metric theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 G. Giachetta , G. Sardanashvily

General relativity (GR) is the current description of gravity in modern physics. One of the cornerstones of GR, as well as Newton's theory of gravity, is the weak equivalence principle (WEP), stating that the trajectory of a freely falling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-19 Tigran Kalaydzhyan

The conservation of energy and momentum have been viewed as undermining Cartesian mental causation since the 1690s. Modern discussions of the topic tend to use mid-19th century physics, neglecting both locality and Noether's theorem and its…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 J. Brian Pitts

General Relativity (GR) remains the cornerstone of gravitational physics, providing remarkable success in describing a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. However, several challenges underscore the urgent need to explore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Susobhan Mandal , S. Shankaranarayanan

Explanations of the late-time cosmic acceleration within the framework of general relativity are plagued by difficulties. General relativistic models are mostly based on a dark energy field with fine-tuned, unnatural properties. There is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Ruth Durrer , Roy Maartens

The energy-momentum tensor (EMT) of the proton encodes fundamental information about its mass, pressure, and shear distributions. Using recent lattice QCD data for the gravitational form factors, we show that the Breit-frame Wigner EMT may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-07 Adrian Dumitru , Jorge Noronha

This paper is devoted to explore the energy-momentum of non-static plane symmetric spacetimes in the context of General Relativity and teleparallel theory of gravity. For this purpose, we use four prescriptions, namely, Einstein,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-06 M. Jamil Amir , Sarfraz Ali , Tariq Ismaeel

In this work we use generalized deformed gauge groups for investigation of symmetry of general relativity (GR). GR is formulated in generalized reference frames, which are represented by (anholonomic in general case) affine frame fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-09 S. E. Samokhvalov

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 problem of the energy-momentum conservation for matter in the gravitational field is discussed on the example of the effective gravity, which arises in superfluids. The "gravitational" field experienced by the relativistic-like massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Volovik

We introduce additional restriction into "general ether theory" - a generalization of Lorentz ether theory to gravity - which fixes the signs of the cosmological constants in this theory. This leads to an oscillating universe, thus, solves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-08 Ilja Schmelzer

One has not any conventional energy-momentum conservation law in Lagrangian field theory, but relations involving different stress-energy-momentum tensors associated with different connections. It is not obvious how to choose the true…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Sardanashvily

Energy has an ambiguous status in general relativity. For systems embedded in asymptotically flat space-times it is possible to construct an integral invariant that corresponds to total energy, however there is no local differential…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 T. Erber

As we now know, there are indeed at least two major difficulties with General Relativity (GR). The first one is related with its incompatibility with quantum mechanics, in the absence of a widely accepted consistent theory that combines the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ram Gopal Vishwakarma

In this work, we discuss the conditions that allow the establishment of an equivalence between $f(R,T)=R+\lambda h(T)$ gravity models and General Relativity (GR) coupled to a modified matter sector. We do so by considering a $D$-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Gonzalo J. Olmo , Miguel A. S. Pinto