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Past exam of the general relativity and cosmology and condensed matter physics paper of Part B of the physics course of the University of Oxford / 2011 / Section V / 3 / Unlettered 3 / Solution by

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The official notes, PDF p. 19, handwritten p. 12 integrate the radial null geodesic, express the radial coordinate in terms of comoving distance, and give its maximum value in that coordinate chart. The maximum radial coordinate is not the total path length around a closed spatial slice.

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