Now, taking from my "relativistic electromagnetic metric in medium" worksheet...
from the section "special relativity electromagnetic stress-energy in medium":
has units
For electromagnetism, and are given by:
What do we do about the asymmetry? That brings on a whole other level of complexity.
In fact, if we are using the de Donder gauge then we are stuck with
aka
With 'TR' meaning 'trace-reversal'.
This means that any asymmetry in the Ricci curvature will also have to show up in the metric (right? or will the get rid of it? I can't see how...).
It does make me think I do, in fact, need to use a symmetrizing mechanism. Options?
There's the simple .
There's the Belinfante and Rosenfeld symmetrization:
But this means also introducing our torsion term which should be coupled to our particle spins...
if we simply symmetrize we get:
For, , for the Poynting vector.