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A very subtle thing is in Wiki I found the energy-momentum tensor in GR is automatically symmetric.

So whether the relativistic energy-momentum tensor is always symmetric? Whether this implies some relativistic constrain?

So whether this is just some coincidence?

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$T^{i0}$ energy flux , $T^{0i}$ momentum density. The Symmetry follows from the fact that energy and momentum are the same thing rewieved in different reference frames. If energy is flowing in the system , we must have momentum as well. Energy flux is thus equivalent to momentum density. This tensor is symmetric in general theory of relativity.

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