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Sign crazyness on the stress energy tensor?
I would like to know on what depends the sign of the stress energy tensor in the following formula :
$T_{\mu\nu}=\pm(\rho c^2+P)u_{\mu}u_{\nu} \pm P g_{\mu\nu}$
In my case the metric is equal to ...
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Is 4-volume element a scalar or a pseudoscalar in special relativity?
In general relativity 4-volume element $\mathrm{d}^4 x = \mathrm{d} x^0\mathrm{d} x^1 \mathrm{d} x^2\mathrm{d} x^3$ is clearly a pseudoscalar (or scalar density) of weight 1 since it transforms as ...
