Solution

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For the round sphere, every normal has only components because the Reissner-Nordstrom metric has no mixed angular terms. The vector is normal and null: . Write the second null vector normal as . The normalization gives , so . Its null condition then reads . Thus
The specified future orientation of , together with , makes future-directed as well. This choice fixes the reciprocal scaling freedom of the two null vectors on the sphere.

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