Stress-energy tensor

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The stress-energy tensor Tαβ encodes both conservation of energy and conservation of momentum via the pointwise conservation law

\partial^\alpha T_{\alpha \beta} = 0.

It can be constructed from any geometric (i.e. diffeomorphism-covariant) Lagrangian equation via Noether's theorem.

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