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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 54 3 c Solution by
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Since , . Substitution into the radial metric cancels the terms. The ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates giveThe radial block has determinant , even when . Its coefficients are analytic for every , so this form extends through and also through to . Ordinary angular coordinate singularities are removed by angular charts on the three-sphere. The genuine endpoint is not included in this extension.
The field is an ingoing null tangent. It is future-directed in the original exterior, since its inner product with the future stationary Killing vector field is , and it remains future-directed by continuation. This fixes the time orientation used in the next part.
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