Scale invariance and the energy–momentum tensor
Peter Bendix · Canadian Journal of Physics · 1970
A method is described by which an energy–momentum tensor can be constructed such that in addition to the usual properties of this tensor it acquires the property of scale invariance in the absence of masses and charges. (The new energy–momentum tensor constructed here is not the source of the gravitational field, however.) It is shown that the usual construction for the massless Klein–Gordon field yields an energy–momentum tensor which is not scale invariant, whereas using the construction described here, one finds a scale invariant energy–momentum tensor for this case.