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Derivation · draft

Belinfante-Rosenfeld Improvement

D-369 Home PU-402 Threads energy · symmetry · fields Depends on Canonical Stress-Energy Tensor, Noether's First Theorem
Statement

Adding a superpotential fixed by Lorentz (rotation-boost) invariance improves the canonical tensor into the symmetric, gauge-invariant Belinfante tensor that couples to gravity.

Depends on

Canonical Stress-Energy Tensor, Noether's First Theorem

Used by

PU-402/L07