Solution

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Smoothness requires the polar angle to have period exactly . Therefore Euclidean time must be identified by
A nontrivial integer multiple of this fundamental period still gives an excess-angle cone at the tip; it is not a smooth plane there. The static time has already been normalized at infinity because V tends to one.
For distinct charged roots, writing gives . These unequal periods cannot simultaneously remove both simple-root cones using one common time identification; the outer and inner static Euclidean regions are in any case separated by a band where V is negative. The physically relevant asymptotically flat exterior uses . The neutral outer horizon gives .

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