Solution

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

Write in the Schwarzschild metric. For the stationary Killing vector field , its dual is and the Papapetrou electromagnetic field is
Outside the Schwarzschild event horizon, use the static orthonormal coframe , , , . Then . With the electric field convention from the preceding part,
Thus the stationary Killing vector field gives a Coulomb electric field, directed inward in this convention. If the charge is normalized by , its charge is . A convention with reverses that charge; the invariant content is a radial monopole electric field of magnitude .
For the axial Killing vector field , , giving
In the same static orthonormal coframe, this is a purely magnetic field with
At large these are the spherical components of . This is therefore the regular magnetic test field asymptotic to a uniform axial field, distorted by the Schwarzschild black hole. Its net magnetic monopole flux is zero because the integral of over a sphere vanishes. Both electromagnetic fields are regular at the future event horizon: in ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, the electric field is , and the magnetic two-form already contains only regular spatial coordinates. Static observers themselves cease to exist on the event horizon.

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