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Resolution of the Abraham—Minkowski Controversy

Authors: Andrew T. Hamilton

The Abraham—Minkowski controversy has arisen because the Minkowski stress-energy tensor for the electromagnetic field in polarized and magnetized matter is not symmetric. This note proposes an alternative that is both symmetric and traceless.

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