About the equivalence of Abraham's and Minkowski's electrodynamics

1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1022-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Kranyš
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Medium ◽  
Closed System ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Symmetric Tensor ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Dynamical Equations ◽  
Minkowski Tensor

The old problem of the structure of the energy-momentum tensor of a polarized and magnetized elastic medium is investigated. It is shown that the Minkowski tensor in connection with Eckart's non-symmetric tensor—if one requires that the resulting tensor be symmetric—is equal to the sum of Eckart's symmetric tensor with the Abraham tensor. Both possibilities lead to the same energy-momentum tensor for a closed system. Consequently, the dynamical equations for both combinations are identical and the possibility of distinguishing between the two tensors by observing the Abraham force [Formula: see text] is out of the question.

On a non-symmetric theory of the pure gravitational field

1958 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Sciama
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Rest Mass ◽  
Symmetric Tensor ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Unified Field Theory ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Metric Tensor ◽  
Unified Field

ABSTRACTIt is suggested, on heuristic grounds, that the energy-momentum tensor of a material field with non-zero spin and non-zero rest-mass should be non-symmetric. The usual relationship between energy-momentum tensor and gravitational potential then implies that the latter should also be a non-symmetric tensor. This suggestion has nothing to do with unified field theory; it is concerned with the pure gravitational field.A theory of gravitation based on a non-symmetric potential is developed. Field equations are derived, and a study is made of Rosenfeld identities, Bianchi identities, angular momentum and the equations of motion of test particles. These latter equations represent the geodesics of a Riemannian space whose contravariant metric tensor is gij–, in agreement with a result of Lichnerowicz(9) on the bicharacteristics of the Einstein–Schrödinger field equations.

Impact of f(R,T) gravity in evolution of charged viscous fluids

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (04) ◽  
pp. 2150027
Author(s):  
I. Noureen ◽  
Usman-ul-Haq ◽  
S. A. Mardan
Keyword(s):  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Viscous Fluids ◽  
Fluid Distribution ◽  
Perturbation Scheme ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Dynamical Equations ◽  
Stability Of Stars ◽  
The Stability

In this work, the evolution of spherically symmetric charged anisotropic viscous fluids is discussed in framework of [Formula: see text] gravity. In order to conduct the analysis, modified Einstein Maxwell field equations are constructed. Nonzero divergence of modified energy momentum tensor is taken that implicates dynamical equations. The perturbation scheme is applied to dynamical equations for stability analysis. The stability analysis is carried out in Newtonian and post-Newtonian limits. It is observed that charge, fluid distribution, electromagnetic field, viscosity and mass of the celestial objects greatly affect the collapsing process as well as stability of stars.

Further comments on the equivalence of Abraham's, Minkowski's, and others' electrodynamics

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 1163-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérard A. Maugin
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Mechanical Behavior ◽  
Internal Energy ◽  
Closed System ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Electromagnetic Energy ◽  
Time Decomposition

Arguments recently proposed by Kranyš concerning the nondistinguishability between Abraham's and Minkowski's electromagnetic contributions to the total energy-momentum tensor of the same relativistic, thermodynamically closed system are extended to other electromagnetic energy-momentum tensors (as proposed by Grot and Eringen and de Groot and Suttorp). The adjustment of the corresponding "matter" contribution, which occurs in each element of the canonical space-time decomposition of the total energy-momentum tensor, is exhibited in those different cases. For dissipation-free systems this adjustment can be achieved for each case by means of an ad hoc Legendre transformation on the internal energy density. The arguments used do not presuppose any isotropy and linearity of the medium and can be readily extended to the cases of media with hysteresis and media endowed with intrinsic spins, be they of a fluid-like or solid-like type of mechanical behavior.

Symmetric energy-momentum tensors in relativistic field theories

1947 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. de Wet
Keyword(s):  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Symmetric Tensor ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Variation Principle ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Relativistic Field ◽  
Rank 2 ◽  
The Difference ◽  
In Virtue Of

In relativistic field theories derived by a variation principle from a Lagrangian, the problem arises of finding a symmetric tensor of rank 2 which has vanishing divergence in virtue of the field equations and is such that taken over a space-like section is equal to the corresponding integral of the so-called canonical energy-momentum tensor. It is well known that the latter condition is satisfied if the difference between the two tensors is the divergence of an antisymmetric tensor of rank 3.

CASIMIR EFFECT FOR THE ROBIN SURFACES IN STATIC ROBERTSON–WALKER SPACE–TIME

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD R. SETARE ◽  
M. DEHGHANI
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Field ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Casimir Effect ◽  
Vacuum Expectation ◽  
Robin Boundary Condition ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Conformally Invariant ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Robin Boundary

We investigate the energy–momentum tensor for a massless conformally coupled scalar field in the region between two curved surfaces in k = -1 static Robertson–Walker space–time. We assume that the scalar field satisfies the Robin boundary condition on the surfaces. Robertson–Walker space–time space is conformally related to Rindler space; as a result we can obtain vacuum expectation values of the energy–momentum tensor for a conformally invariant field in Robertson–Walker space–time space from the corresponding Rindler counterpart by the conformal transformation.

scholarly journals Cutoff AdS3 versus $$ T\overline{T} $$ CFT2 in the large central charge sector: correlators of energy-momentum tensor

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Li ◽  
Yang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Euclidean Plane ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Operator Identity ◽  
Pure Gravity ◽  
Charge Sector

Abstract In this article we probe the proposed holographic duality between $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ deformed two dimensional conformal field theory and the gravity theory of AdS3 with a Dirichlet cutoff by computing correlators of energy-momentum tensor. We focus on the large central charge sector of the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ CFT in a Euclidean plane and a sphere, and compute the correlators of energy-momentum tensor using an operator identity promoted from the classical trace relation. The result agrees with a computation of classical pure gravity in Euclidean AdS3 with the corresponding cutoff surface, given a holographic dictionary which identifies gravity parameters with $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ CFT parameters.

scholarly journals Conservation Integrals in Nonhomogeneous Materials with Flexoelectricity

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Pengfei Yu ◽  
Weifeng Leng ◽  
Yaohong Suo
Keyword(s):  
Electromechanical Coupling ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Operator Method ◽  
Electric Polarization ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Noether Theorem ◽  
Strain Gradients ◽  
Flexoelectric Effect ◽  
Nonhomogeneous Materials

The flexoelectricity, which is a new electromechanical coupling phenomenon between strain gradients and electric polarization, has a great influence on the fracture analysis of flexoelectric solids due to the large gradients near the cracks. On the other hand, although the flexoelectricity has been extensively investigated in recent decades, the study on flexoelectricity in nonhomogeneous materials is still rare, especially the fracture problems. Therefore, in this manuscript, the conservation integrals for nonhomogeneous flexoelectric materials are obtained to solve the fracture problem. Application of operators such as grad, div, and curl to electric Gibbs free energy and internal energy, the energy-momentum tensor, angular momentum tensor, and dilatation flux can also be derived. We examine the correctness of the conservation integrals by comparing with the previous work and discuss the operator method here and Noether theorem in the previous work. Finally, considering the flexoelectric effect, a nonhomogeneous beam problem with crack is solved to show the application of the conservation integrals.

The Einstein pseudo-tensor and the flux integral for perturbed static space-times

1991 ◽  
Vol 435 (1895) ◽  
pp. 645-657 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Einstein Equations ◽  
Second Variation ◽  
Common Procedure ◽  
Static Vacuum ◽  
Linear Perturbations ◽  
Maxwell Space ◽  
The Common ◽  
Static Space

The flux integral for axisymmetric polar perturbations of static vacuum space-times, derived in an earlier paper directly from the relevant linearized Einstein equations, is rederived with the aid of the Einstein pseudo-tensor by a simple algorism. A similar earlier effort with the aid of the Landau–Lifshitz pseudo-tensor failed. The success with the Einstein pseudo-tensor is due to its special distinguishing feature that its second variation retains its divergence-free property provided only the equations governing the static space-time and its linear perturbations are satisfied. When one seeks the corresponding flux integral for Einstein‒Maxwell space-times, the common procedure of including, together with the pseudo-tensor, the energy‒momentum tensor of the prevailing electromagnetic field fails. But, a prescription due to R. Sorkin, of including instead a suitably defined ‘Noether operator’, succeeds.

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