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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 311 1 b ii Solution by
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The stationary Killing vector field is , with . The normal to has squared norm , so is a null hypersurface; there is both tangent and normal. It is therefore a Killing horizon.
For a static metric of this form, the surface gravity is . Since and ,For the extremal black hole , the horizons coincide and .
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