Kinetic stress-energy tensor

ID: kinetic-stress-energy-tensor

The invariant future mass-shell measure is , up to fixed normalization factors absorbed in . Its relation to the Lorentz-invariant phase-space measure follows by integrating over in a local orthonormal tetrad. A particle carries four-momentum and crosses a local spatial surface with velocity . Integrating the associated momentum flux gives the displayed stress-energy tensor. For photons, and .

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