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Past exam of the relativity course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 2 c Solution by
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Write , and , so . The ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates use to label ingoing radial light fronts. Substituting into the Schwarzschild metric givesThe radial block has determinant even at ; its coefficients have no horizon divergence. The apparent singularity of Schwarzschild time at the future horizon is therefore a coordinate failure. The physical curvature singularity at remains.
The radial null trajectories in ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates haveThe ingoing family crosses the future horizon smoothly. The outgoing family has zero outward radial coordinate speed at the horizon and decreasing radius inside it; both future null directions then lead toward smaller radius. These advanced coordinates cover the exterior and future black-hole horizon, rather than simultaneously regularizing the past white-hole horizon. Their null time coordinate is not a clock reading of a stationary observer.
Original future light-cone schematic in regular advanced Schwarzschild coordinates, using vertical coordinate cv minus r
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