Symmetric energy-momentum tensor in Maxwell, Yang-Mills, and Proca theories obtained using only Noether's theorem
Abstract
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 Proca field, the same procedure yields also the symmetric energy-momentum tensor. In all cases, the key point to get the right expressions for the energy-momentum tensors is the appropriate handling of their equations of motion and the Bianchi identities. It must be stressed that these results are obtained without using Belinfante's symmetrization techniques which are usually employed to this end.
- Publication:
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Revista Mexicana de Fisica
- Pub Date:
- February 2006
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0602190
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0602190
- Bibcode:
- 2006RMxF...52...29M
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Physics - Classical Physics
- E-Print:
- LaTeX file, 7 pages, no figures