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Assume an asymptotically flat Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime, with $M>|Q|$, time normalized at infinity, and $G=\hslash =c_{\mathrm{light}}=k_B=1$. PutNear $r_{+}$, the Euclidean radial-time metric is $f^{\prime }(r_{+})(r-r_{+})d{\tau }^2+d{r}^2/[f^{\prime }(r_{+})(r-r_{+})]$. With $\rho =2\sqrt{(r-r_{+})/f^{\prime }(r_{+})}$, it becomesThe Euclidean black-hole regularity condition removes a conical defect only if $\tau$ has period $4\pi /f^{\prime }(r_{+})$. Therefore the Reissner-Nordstrom Hawking temperature isEquivalently this is the Reissner-Nordstrom horizon surface gravity divided by $2\pi$. The derivation assumes a nondegenerate horizon; the value zero at $M=q$ is obtained by the nonextremal limit, not by imposing conical regularity directly on the degenerate geometry.

For fixed nonzero $q$, write $y=r_{+}/q\ge 1$. The horizon equation givesThe mass is increasing with $y>1$, andThus the fixed-charge Reissner-Nordstrom temperature maximum occurs atThe curve starts at zero at $M=q$, rises to this maximum, then falls as $1/(8\pi M)$ for large mass. During evaporation from $M_0\gg q$, the mass moves from right to left: the temperature initially increases, reaches its maximum, and then decreases towards zero.

Under the printed thermal-emission cutoff, charged emission is absent throughout precisely when the entire mass path remains at or below the threshold:Equality is allowed because emission is assumed to require $T>m$, not merely $T=m$. The initial large mass ensures that the path includes the maximum.

With charge then conserved, neutral Hawking radiation lowers the mass until the system approaches the charge-preserving Reissner-Nordstrom evaporation endpoint:The limiting state is an extremal black hole, rather than a neutral zero-mass endpoint. Exact attainment in finite time is not established: near extremality $T\sim \sqrt{M-q}/(\sqrt{2}\pi q^{3/2})$, and the ideal radiation rate tends to zero. The conclusion is within the assumed thermal cutoff model, which omits nonthermal charge creation and other quantum corrections. For $Q=0$, the Schwarzschild temperature instead grows without bound in the extrapolated model, so no finite $m$ satisfies the stated all-the-way temperature bound.

Let $f(r)=1-2M/r+Q^2/r^2$. A positive-radius horizon requires a root of $r^2-2Mr+Q^2=0$, givingFor the usual asymptotically flat Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime, the black-hole conditions areThe strict inequality gives a nonextremal outer event horizon at $r_{+}$; equality gives an extremal black hole. If $M<|Q|$ with $M>0$, there is no horizon and the central curvature singularity is naked. Nonpositive $M$ cannot supply a positive-radius black-hole horizon; $M=Q=0$ is Minkowski spacetime. For $Q=0$, the zero root $r_{-}=0$ is the singularity, not an additional regular horizon.

In the static coordinates the vector $k={\partial }_t$ has constant components and every metric component is independent of $t$. Its Lie derivative therefore satisfiesFor the torsion-free Levi-Civita connection, ${\mathcal{L}}_{k}g=2{\nabla }_{(a}{k}_{b)}$, proving the Killing equation directly. This also normalizes the Killing vector field to unit time translation at infinity.

At $r=r_{+}$, $k^2=-f=0$. Use the regular advanced chart $v=t+r_{\ast }$ with $d{r}_{\ast }/dr=f^{-1}$, in whichOn the horizon, $k_a=(dr{)}_a$. Thus the Killing vector field is both null and normal to the horizon, and its orbits generate that Killing horizon. The normal lines of a null hypersurface are null geodesics, possibly with nonaffine parameter. To see this without assuming a separate geodesic property, the Killing equation givesRestriction to the future horizon therefore givesThe acceleration is proportional to the tangent, which is exactly the geodesic equation with a nonaffine parameter. An affinely parametrized tangent can be obtained by rescaling $k$ along each generator; that rescaled vector need not itself extend to a spacetime Killing vector field. At a nonextremal bifurcation surface, $k$ vanishes, so a nonzero generator tangent must be described in a regular affine parametrization there.

On the past branch, use the retarded chart with radial-time cross term $-2dudr$. Now $k_a=-(dr{)}_a$ at the horizon, so the same calculation yields the opposite signed nonaffinity. Since $r_{+}$ is constant and the spacetime is spherically symmetric, $f^{\prime }(r_{+})/2$ is constant over the future horizon. This gives the two signs in the horizon relation without assuming their value beforehand.

Factor $f=(r-r_{+})(r-r_{-})/r^2$. Its derivative at the outer horizon gives the Reissner-Nordstrom horizon surface gravityIt is positive for $M>|Q|$, and at $Q=0$ reduces to the Schwarzschild surface gravity $1/(4M)$. For $M=|Q|>0$, the root is double and $\kappa =0$. Thus the horizon remains present when its surface gravity vanishes: it is a degenerate Killing horizon, and $k$ itself has affine parametrization along its nonzero horizon generators. The strictly positive-constant description applies only to the nonextremal case; the zero value is the legitimate extremal limit.