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New electromagnetic conservation laws

广义相对论与量子宇宙学 2009-11-10 v1

摘要

The Chevreton superenergy tensor was introduced in 1964 as a counterpart, for electromagnetic fields, of the well-known Bel-Robinson tensor of the gravitational field. We here prove the unnoticed facts that, in the absence of electromagnetic currents, Chevreton's tensor (i) is completely symmetric, and (ii) has a trace-free divergence if Einstein-Maxwell equations hold. It follows that the trace of the Chevreton tensor is a rank-2, symmetric, trace-free, {\em conserved} tensor, which is different from the energy-momentum tensor, and nonetheless can be constructed for any test Maxwell field, or any Einstein-Maxwell spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0303036,
  title  = {New electromagnetic conservation laws},
  author = {G. Bergqvist and I. Eriksson and J. M. M. Senovilla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0303036},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages