Analytic extension of a spacetime
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An analytic extension embeds a spacetime isometrically as a proper open region in a larger analytic Lorentzian manifold with a nondegenerate metric tensor. A divergence of coordinate components does not obstruct extension if a new chart makes all metric coefficients analytic and the determinant nonzero. For a static spherical metric with an analytic lapse and a positive simple horizon radius, ingoing coordinates replace by . This removes the coordinate singularity at ; transverse metric coefficients must also remain regular. An extension across such a horizon is distinct from extending through a curvature singularity.
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