Continuity Equation - General Relativity

General Relativity

The stress-energy tensor is a second-order tensor field containing energy-momentum densities, energy-momentum fluxes, and shear stresses, of a mass-energy distribution. The divergence of this tensor vanishes:

because energy and momentum are conserved. This is an important constraint on the form the Einstein field equations take in general relativity.

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