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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 311 1 a i Solution by
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Use geometrized units and metric signature . Put in the Schwarzschild metric. The Schwarzschild tortoise coordinate satisfies , soSubstituting gives the ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates:The radial metric tensor has determinant and inverse components , , . Thus it is nondegenerate and analytic at . The same expression defines a Lorentzian metric for every , extending the exterior across the future Schwarzschild event horizon into the black hole. It does not include the other exterior or the white hole of the full Kruskal spacetime. At , the Kretschmann scalar diverges, so this is a curvature singularity, not a removable coordinate singularity.
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