Charged relativistic dust

ID: charged-relativistic-dust

For identical particles of rest mass and electric charge , the four-current is . The matter stress-energy tensor obeys , with the opposite force density in the electromagnetic stress-energy tensor. Antisymmetry of the electromagnetic field tensor makes its contraction with two four-velocities vanish, so mass continuity still holds. Removing that term leaves the displayed covariant Lorentz force law. The matter tensor alone is not divergence-free when an electromagnetic force acts.

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