Rindler limit of a Schwarzschild horizon

ID: rindler-limit-of-a-schwarzschild-horizon

Outside a Schwarzschild metric horizon , write . To leading order the radial metric is
It has Rindler coordinates with . The proper-distance-like coordinate has null paths exponential in ; the Schwarzschild coordinate difference is exponential in .
Inside, writing instead gives , where the radial coordinate is timelike. The negative- Rindler wedge is therefore not the black-hole interior: its time coordinate retains the same causal type as in the positive- wedge. The flat radial limit does not remove the genuine curvature of the full Schwarzschild spacetime.

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