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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 311 3 a Solution by
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Put and . Expanding the metric tensor in the stationary direction gives the useful exact identitiesTaking the exterior derivative givesThe fibered form of the metric tensor has determinant . Its inverse components needed for the flux areThereforesince . This calculation includes the rotational mixed term; dropping it prematurely would miss the exact cancellation.
With the stipulated negative coordinate orientation, . The pullback of the Hodge star operator to the constant- three-dimensional spacelike submanifold is consequentlyThe coordinate ranges and standard sphere identifications giveThus the five-dimensional Komar mass, in the normalization given and , isThe flux is already independent of in the vacuum region, so its limit at infinity has the same value. The negative orientation in the question is crucial for the positive sign; reversing that orientation reverses the flux.
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