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Conservation laws and stress–energy–momentum tensors for systems with background fields. / Gratus, Jonathan; Tucker, Robin; Obukhov, Yuri.
In: Annals of Physics, Vol. 327, No. 10, 10.2012, p. 2560-2590.

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Gratus J, Tucker R, Obukhov Y. Conservation laws and stress–energy–momentum tensors for systems with background fields. Annals of Physics. 2012 Oct;327(10):2560-2590. Epub 2012 Jul 16. doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2012.07.006

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Gratus, Jonathan ; Tucker, Robin ; Obukhov, Yuri. / Conservation laws and stress–energy–momentum tensors for systems with background fields. In: Annals of Physics. 2012 ; Vol. 327, No. 10. pp. 2560-2590.

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