New electromagnetic conservation laws

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/13/313zbMATH Open1038.83013arXivgr-qc/0303036OpenAlexW3098856557WikidataQ125267161 ScholiaQ125267161MaRDI QIDQ4457621FDOQ4457621

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)

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.

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

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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)

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