Solution

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With the proper time of the massive test particle, the four-velocity has squared norm :
The conserved quantities in part (i) give
Multiplying the normalization by and substituting gives the charged-particle radial equation in Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime:
At a radial turning point , the left side is zero, so
The parenthesis on the left is strictly positive. Hence . The factorization in part (b) now yields
There is no radial turning point between the horizons. Indeed, for , the right-hand side of the radial equation is strictly positive, independently of the electric charge of the test particle. This is the charged-particle turning-point exclusion in Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime.
The inequalities are necessary, not a claim that a radial turning point exists for every . At a regular horizon crossing a timelike vector cannot be tangent to a null hypersurface, so a massive test particle actually has there. Algebraic equality at would require and does not describe a regular finite-proper time radial turning point on the horizon. In the Schwarzschild spacetime limit , the positive-radius inner alternative disappears.

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