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TYABJI1 has shown that the energy momentum tensor in the vortical form of Dirac's new electromagnetic theory2 has the same form as that belonging to the non-vortical theory. The method he uses of first obtaining a non-symmetrical form and then adding a suitable symmetrizing term depends on the particular definition of the electromagnetic potential Aµ and thus does not show why the two energy momentum tensors should have the same form.
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HOFFMANN, B. The Energy Momentum Tensor in Dirac's New Electromagnetic Theory. Nature 170, 1126 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/1701126a0
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