Reissner-Nordstrom Kretschmann scalar

ID: reissner-nordstrom-kretschmann-scalar

For the Reissner-Nordstrom metric with , the Kretschmann scalar is
The first expression follows by squaring the independent Riemann curvature tensor components in an orthonormal frame. This Kretschmann scalar diverges at for any nonzero or , but is finite at every positive root of . Regular Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates show that those positive roots are coordinate singularities of the static chart. In the extremal case , its horizon value is .

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