Varying the scalar and integrating by parts givesbecause the boundary term vanishes by the support assumption. The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations therefore gives the Klein-Gordon equation
Using both metric-variation formulas from part a gives the Klein-Gordon scalar stress-energy tensorIts divergence isbecause the two Hessian terms cancel by symmetry. It vanishes on every solution of the Klein-Gordon equation.
Killing equation is . For the stress-energy current from a Killing vector ,The first term vanishes on shell, while the second contracts the symmetric tensor with the antisymmetric derivative selected by Killing's equation. Thus .
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