Tuesday, 30 June 2015

electromagnetism - Electromagnetic stress tensor is only traceless in 4D?


The electromagnetic stress tensor Fμν is as we all know traceless in 4 dimensions. With Fμν=μAννAμ and A=(A0,A1,A2,A3)=(ϕ,A1,A2,A3)



In other dimensions this is not the case? If so how does one expand either the definition of Fμν and A?


Edit: I was clearly wrong with the with terminology, I meant the electromagnetic stress-energy tensor (or electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor) which was pointed out in the comment section.




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