  The behaviour of the Maxwell field near one of the spatial infinities of the
Schwarzschild solution is analysed by means of the transport equations implied
by the Maxwell equations on the cylinder at spatial infinity. Initial data for
the Maxwell equations will be assumed to be expandable in terms of powers of a
coordinate $\rho$ measuring the geodesic distance to spatial infinity (in the
conformal picture) and such that the highest possible spherical harmonics at
order $p$ are $2^p$-polar ones. It is shown that if the $2^p$-polar harmonics
at order $p$ in the initial data satisfy a certain regularity condition then
the solutions to the transport equations at orders $p$ and $p+1$ are completely
regular at the critical sets where null infinity touches spatial infinity. On
the other hand, the solutions to the transport equations of order $p+2$
contain, in general, logarithmic singularities at the critical sets. It is
expected that the ideas and techniques developed in the analysis of this
problem can be employed to discuss the more challenging case of the transport
equations implied by the conformal Einstein equations, and thus provide a way
of constructing a proof of a certain rigidity conjecture concerning the
developments of conformally flat initial data sets.
