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Stress-energy tensor

The stress-energy tensor is a tensor quantity in relativity. It describes the flow of energy and momentum. It satisfies the continuity equation

The quantity

over a spacelike slice gives the energy-momentum vector. This tensor is the Noether current associated with spacetime translations. In general relativity, this quantity acts as the source of spacetime curvature. One thing to note is that in curved spacetime, the spacelike integral now depends on the spacelike slice in general. This is simply the statement that there's no way to define a global energy-momentum vector in a general curved spacetime.

External links:

  • http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/diff_geom/Sec12.html

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Glossary of tensor theory | List of physics topics R-Z | Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems | Stress (physics) | Tensor notation

 

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