Energy Distribution in Melvin's Magnetic Universe
S. S. Xulu
TL;DR
This paper calculates the energy distribution in Melvin's magnetic universe using various energy-momentum complexes, demonstrating their consistency and usefulness in gravitational energy localization.
Contribution
It compares different energy-momentum complexes and confirms their agreement in computing energy distribution for Melvin's magnetic universe.
Findings
Energy-momentum complexes of Landau-Lifshitz, Papapetrou, and Einstein agree on energy distribution.
Results support the reliability of energy-momentum complexes in gravitational energy calculations.
The same energy distribution is obtained across different definitions, confirming their consistency.
Abstract
We use the energy-momentum complexes of Landau and Lifshitz and Papapetrou to obtain the energy distribution in Melvin's magnetic universe. For this space-time we find that these definitions of energy give the same and convincing results. The energy distribution obtained here is the same as we obtained earlier for the same space-time using the energy-momentum complex of Einstein. These results uphold the usefulness of the energy-momentum complexes.
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