Four-momentum of a free real scalar field
ID: four-momentum-of-a-free-real-scalar-field
For the free real scalar field with signature ,The canonical stress-energy tensor is . Its divergence vanishes by the Klein-Gordon equation, giving constant integrated charges when integrals and boundary flux are well behaved. The minus sign in contravariant spatial momentum is from ; lower-index spatial charges have the opposite sign. A plane wave has momentum density pointing along .
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