Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 56 2 c ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
A Killing horizon must be a null hypersurface whose normal is a Killing vector field. The outer stationary-limit surface instead has and, in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates,On it, , so away from the rotation axis. Its normal is spacelike and the surface timelike. Thus the Kerr stationary-limit surface is generically timelike and is not a Killing horizon, despite there. For example its stationary null vector is not normal, since away from the axis. The actual outer Killing horizon is , generated by , with Kerr horizon angular velocity . The two surfaces meet on the axis, which does not make the entire stationary-limit surface null.