New electromagnetic conservation laws

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/13/313MaRDI QIDQ4457621zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Göran Bergqvist, Ingemar Eriksson, José M. M. Senovilla

Publication date 25 March 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0303036

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational fieldEinstein-Maxwell equationselectromagnetic fieldsBel-Robinson tensorsuperenergy tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: The Chevreton superenergy tensor was introduced in 1964 as a counterpart, for electromagnetic fields, of the well-known Bel-Robinson tensor of the gravitational field. We here prove the unnoticed facts that, in the absence of electromagnetic currents, Chevreton's tensor (i) is completely symmetric, and (ii) has a trace-free divergence if Einstein-Maxwell equations hold. It follows that the trace of the Chevreton tensor is a rank-2, symmetric, trace-free, {em conserved} tensor, which is different from the energy-momentum tensor, and nonetheless can be constructed for any test Maxwell field, or any Einstein-Maxwell spacetime.

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