Form of Kruskal-Szekeres Completion

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In summary, The conversation discusses the process of deriving the form of the Kruskal-Szekeres form of the Schwarzschild metric and the use of several formulas and the Lambert W. function. The speaker also mentions having trouble with subbing in and working with their own attempt at the equation for 'r'. They are then advised to repeat the process for dt and plug them into the metric. The link to their professor's paper is also provided.
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In my general relativity class my professor derived the form of the Kruskal-Szekeres form of the Schwarzschild metric using several formulas without actually going through the algebra. I am trying to prove the answer using these formulas but I am having some trouble, especially using the Lambert W. function. In the file I have attached, you can see that equation (9) is the final result from the changes made in the previous equations. In my attempt I tried taking the derivative of the equation for 'r' and arrived at what I have shown below. However, when subbing this in and working with this I don't feel I am making progress. Any assistance is greatly appreciated, thanks.

[itex]dr=2m\frac{dL}{dz}dz[/itex]

where [itex]z=\frac{-uv}{e}[/itex]

The link for my professor's paper is at this link, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.0860v2.pdf , but I will also include the .pdf
 

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That seems like a proper mess :)

But basically what you have is
[tex] r = 2m(\mathcal{L}(1+\Psi(u,v))) [/tex]
so
[tex] dr = \frac{\partial r}{\partial u} du + \frac{\partial r}{\partial v} dv = ... = \frac{2m \mathcal{L}}{1 + \mathcal{L}} (du/u + dv/v) [/tex]
or something like that; I'm too lazy to do the work :) Then repeat for dt. Then you just plug them into the metric and pray everything works out.
 
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got it, thanks!
 

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The Form of Kruskal-Szekeres Completion is a mathematical concept used in general relativity to extend the Schwarzschild solution to describe the complete spacetime of a black hole.

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