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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 54 2 f Solution by
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The stress-energy tensor is already first order, so its energy flux can be evaluated on the unperturbed Schwarzschild event horizon , with the infinity-normalized Killing vector field . On this background , and henceThe conserved stress-energy current from a Killing vector is . Its radial component is negative, so the positive inward energy flux is . Using the directed null-surface measure givesThe initial and final event horizon areas are and . Thus . With Schwarzschild surface gravity , the Physical-process first law of black-hole mechanics follows:The flux is Killing energy, including gravitational redshift, rather than the energy measured by a sequence of static observers arbitrarily close to the event horizon.
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