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Derivation · draft

Canonical Stress-Energy Tensor

D-368 Home PU-402 Threads energy · symmetry · fields Depends on Noether's First Theorem
Statement

Applying Noether's theorem to spacetime translation invariance gives the canonical energy-momentum tensor T^μν whose conservation encodes energy and momentum of the field.

Depends on

Noether's First Theorem

Used by

PU-402/L06