Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 56 3 d i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Write the Schwarzschild metric in Ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates as , with . Ingoing radial null geodesics have constant. Since , choose their future affine tangent , where is constant along a ray; a common normalization sets . The parallel null partner for ingoing Schwarzschild rays isThe radial conditions give and . Parallel transport can be checked explicitly: and , sowith angular components also zero. Thus . The field is regular at and throughout the regular advanced chart ; no vector field can be defined at the curvature-singular endpoint. If the affine normalization differs between rays, the same formula works for constant along each ray, since .