Solution

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For a small amount of matter falling into an initially and finally stationary rotating black hole, the Physical-process first law for a rotating black hole is
Let be an affinely parametrized horizon generator, with affine parameter at the background bifurcation surface. The horizon Killing vector field is
where constancy of is the Zeroth law of black-hole mechanics. The flux of the conserved Killing current through the horizon is
On the stationary background, expansion and shear vanish. To first order in the perturbation, the quadratic optical terms in the Null Raychaudhuri equation may be dropped, and the Einstein equation gives
Impose the teleological final condition . Integration followed by reversal of integration order gives
Comparison with the Killing-energy flux proves the stated law.

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