  This paper characterizes the symmetric rank-2 stress-energy-momentum tensor
associated with fields whose Lagrangian densities are expressed as the dot
product of two multivector fields, e. g., scalar or gauge fields, in flat
space-time. The tensor is derived by a direct application of exterior-algebraic
methods to deal with the invariance of the action to infinitesimal space-time
translations; this direct derivation avoids the use of the canonical tensor.
Formulas for the tensor components and for the tensor itself are derived for
generic values of the multivector grade $s$ and of the number of time and space
dimensions, $k$ and $n$, respectively. A simple, coordinate-free, closed-form
expression for the interior derivative (divergence) of the symmetric
stress-energy-momentum tensor is also obtained: this expression provides a
natural generalization of the Lorentz force that appears in the context of the
electromagnetic theory. Applications of the formulas derived in this paper to
the cases of generalized electromagnetism, Proca action, Yang-Mills fields and
conformal invariance are briefly discussed.
