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RN roots, Killing horizons and surface gravity
Statement
Let , , and use on the selected ingoing RN model. If , the positive roots are null constant- hypersurfaces. For the Killing field normalized by the displayed coordinate for which as , each is a Killing horizon in the local sense of Causal solutions, Killing horizons, escape and metric extensions, with signed surface gravity At extremality , the coincident root is and . If , has no positive root and no constant- null hypersurface of this form. These are local properties of the selected metric; they do not classify event horizons in a maximal spacetime.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , , the selected ingoing RN metric, and the exact current meanings of null hypersurface, Killing horizon and surface gravity.
Selected ingoing RN extension and time orientation: , , and is a global product field.
Explicit rational and real power regimes: the square root of a nonnegative real is its unique nonnegative real root, with . This current batch-2 definition is used only for the exact root convention.
Killing fields of a Lorentzian metric: a smooth vector field is Killing when .
Causal solutions, Killing horizons, escape and metric extensions, Definition (b): a level with nonzero conormal is null exactly when that conormal has zero metric square. A Killing horizon has a nonempty dense nonzero-generator portion with tangent null normal Killing field, and its signed surface gravity is fixed by the ambient covector equation .
All parameters are real and square roots are nonnegative. The parameter and radius units are metres; has units of inverse length.
Proof
Multiplying by gives If , the quadratic formula gives the stated roots. Because and , the nonnegative root satisfies : otherwise , contradicting . Thus both and are positive. If , then for every , so there is no positive root.
The inverse block in [F1] gives . Thus a positive root gives a null level hypersurface. The metric coefficients are independent of , hence and is Killing by [F3]. At a root, and , so is null, tangent and normal to that level. The product field is nonzero everywhere on the level, so its nonzero-generator part is the whole level, nonempty and dense. This verifies the Killing-horizon conditions in [L1].
On the root set, and Comparing with the normalization in [L1] gives . Factoring and differentiating at either root gives which proves the stated formula, including its negative sign at the inner simple root. If , then and the formula gives zero.
If , step 1.1 gives for every . Therefore and no positive constant- level is null. This rules out only the radial-root horizons under discussion, not other global horizon notions.
Remarks
The horizon and signed surface-gravity terms use the current exact vocabulary Definition. The proof establishes their conditions for this selected model, without an event-horizon identification or an independent acceptance claim.