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We study the quantum stress tensor correlation function for a massless scalar field in a flat two-dimensional spacetime containing a moving mirror. We construct the correlation functions for right-moving and left-moving fluxes for an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 L. H. Ford , Thomas A. Roman

We give several construction methods and use them to produce many examples of proper biharmonic maps including biharmonic tori of any dimension in Euclidean spheres (Theorem 2.2, Corollaries 2.3, 2.4, and 2.6), biharmonic maps between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Ye-Lin Ou

We prove that multilinear (tensor) analogues of many efficiently computable problems in numerical linear algebra are NP-hard. Our list here includes: determining the feasibility of a system of bilinear equations, deciding whether a 3-tensor…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Christopher Hillar , Lek-Heng Lim

A variational derivative of a Lagrangian with regard to the metric tensor is used in classical field models to define Hilbert's energy-momentum tensor for a matter field. In solid-state physics, constitutive relationships between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Yakov Itin

The 4-dimensionally covariant approach to multiconstituent Newtonian fluid dynamics presented in the preceding article of this series is developed by construction of the relevant 4-dimensional stress energy tensor whose conservation in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brandon Carter , Nicolas Chamel

Conformal harmonic maps from a 4-dimensional conformal manifold to a Riemannian manifold are maps satisfying a certain conformally invariant fourth order equation. We prove a general existence result for conformal harmonic maps, analogous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Olivier Biquard , Farid Madani

Furthering the development of Da Lio-Gianocca-Rivi\`ere's Morse stability theory (arXiv:2212.03124) that was first applied to harmonic maps between manifolds and later extended to the case of Willmore immersions (arXiv:2306.04608-04609), we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Alexis Michelat

Based on the covariant variation formalism, two versions of the symmetric effective stress-energy tensor of the electromagnetic field in a dynamo-optically active relativistic media are reconstructed in the framework of the tetrad and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-12 Alexander B. Balakin , Timur Yu. Alpin

We apply the energy-momentum tensor which is coordinate independent to calculate the energy content of the axisymmetric solutions. Our results are compared with what have been obtained before within the framework of Einstein general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 G. G. L. Nashed

This paper presents a nonconforming finite element approximation of the space of symmetric tensors with square integrable divergence, on tetrahedral meshes. Used for stress approximation together with the full space of piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Ragnar Winther

We present a comprehensive analysis of the implications of conformal invariance for 3-point functions of the stress-energy tensor, conserved currents and scalar operators in general dimension and in momentum space. Our starting point is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

In this short pedagogical note we clarify some subtleties concerning the symmetries of the coefficients of a Riemann-Cartan connection and the symmetries of the coefficients of the contorsion tensor that has been a source of some confusion…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 J. Fernando T. Giglio , Waldyr A. Rodrigues

We analyze the renormalized stress-energy tensor (RSET) of a massless quantum scalar field in time-dependent gravitational backgrounds. Starting from its formal expression obtained within the covariant perturbative expansion to lowest order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 A. Boasso , F. D. Mazzitelli

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

We consider two hypothesis testing problems for low-rank and high-dimensional tensor signals, namely the tensor signal alignment and tensor signal matching problems. These problems are challenging due to the high dimension of tensors and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Ruihan Liu , Zhenggang Wang , Jianfeng Yao

This note provides an explicit proof of the equivalence of the Belinfante's energy-momentum tensor and the metric energy-momentum tensor for general mixed tensor-spinor fields.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hongbao Zhang

By considering Hadamard vacuum states, we first construct the two-point functions associated with Stueckelberg massive electromagnetism in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. Then, from the general formalism developed in [A. Belokogne…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Andrei Belokogne , Antoine Folacci , Julien Queva

Vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy-momentum tensor for scalar and spinor fields is obtainted on the homogeneous space with $G$-invariant metrics using the orbits of coadjoint representation of Lie group and the generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 A. I. Breev

We prove that a completely symmetric and trace-free rank-4 tensor is, up to sign, a Bel-Robinson type tensor, i.e., the superenergy tensor of a tensor with the same algebraic symmetries as the Weyl tensor, if and only if it satisfies a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Bergqvist , P. Lankinen

We use computational algorithms recently developed by us to study completely four index divergence free quadratic in Riemann tensor polynomials in GR. Some results are new and some other reproduce and/or correct known ones. The algorithms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 X. Jaen , A. Balfagon