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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 58 1 a Solution by
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A Killing horizon is a null hypersurface with a Killing vector field as its normal and generator. Write along its orbits. These are null geodesics, but their Killing parameter need not be affine:The coefficient is the surface gravity for the chosen normalization; nondegeneracy means . If is affine and , then and . For constant , .
The Killing equation yields . On the horizon, . Multiplying by a positive constant multiplies by that constant; physical temperature therefore needs a stated time normalization.
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