Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-54/1/a/ii/solution

The Levi-Civita connection has symmetric Christoffel symbols, so antisymmetrization removes its connection terms. Hence the Papapetrou electromagnetic field is
where the last equality uses the Killing equation. As a differential two-form, , so the identity for the exterior derivative proves . Contracting the preceding second covariant derivative of a Killing vector gives
A vacuum spacetime here has , with no cosmological constant. Therefore both source-free Maxwell equations hold:
This is a test electromagnetic field on the given vacuum spacetime; its own stress-energy tensor is not included in that background's Einstein field equations.

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