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Pure magnetic anisotropic stress and null-flux equality
Two exact pointwise electromagnetic-stress calculations in an orthonormal observer frame: a pure magnetic field has anisotropic principal stresses, and crossed equal-normalized electric and magnetic fields saturate the DEC flux bound. These are ideal local/test-background calculations, not measurements or full coupled Einstein–Maxwell solutions.
Example
At a point in a Minkowski orthonormal observer frame, use the SI electromagnetic stress and observer conventions of Smooth matter quantities, current and observer observables.
For a pure magnetic field , with , the energy density is , the energy current is , and the spatial principal stresses are . The tensor is trace-free, obeys WEC, NEC, SEC and DEC, and is not an isotropic perfect-fluid stress because .
For crossed fields , with , the energy density is and the spatial energy current is . The observer energy-current four-vector is therefore null, so the DEC causal-flux inequality is saturated. Both calculations are exact ideal tensor evaluations at an observer event; they are not experimental reports or claims that the fields solve the full Einstein equation on an unchanged Minkowski metric.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A point with Minkowski metric, a positively oriented orthonormal observer tetrad, , and one of the two stated nonzero field configurations.
Smooth matter quantities, current and observer observables: the electromagnetic tensor is , and the frame convention is , .
Observer energy conditions for selected matter plus EM: the electromagnetic stress has observer density , energy current , and satisfies the four stated energy conditions with causal DEC current.
The first configuration has , , ; the second has , , . These are pointwise ideal field values, not reported measurements.
Verification
In the first configuration the tensor formula [F1] gives , , , and zero mixed components. Thus its trace is and its spatial principal stresses are unequal. To exclude every perfect-fluid representation, suppose with . Then and . If , all vanish and , contradicting with . If , the same isotropic spatial matrix follows directly from and gives the same contradiction. Hence no such representation exists; [F2] supplies WEC, NEC, SEC and DEC for this electromagnetic tensor.
In the crossed-field configuration, and , so [F2] gives . Also , hence . The observer energy-current four-vector is nonzero null, so its DEC norm bound is attained.