Solution

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Put and . Expanding the metric tensor in the stationary direction gives the useful exact identities
Taking the exterior derivative gives
The fibered form of the metric tensor has determinant . Its inverse components needed for the flux are
Therefore
since . 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 consequently
The coordinate ranges and standard sphere identifications give
Thus the five-dimensional Komar mass, in the normalization given and , is
The 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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