Solution

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Put , the standard metric tensor on the unit sphere. From one has . The apparently divergent terms cancel:
The metric tensor block has determinant , independently of . Its coefficients are real analytic, so this formula defines a regular Lorentzian metric on
The polar-coordinate degeneracies at the poles are handled by ordinary two-sphere charts. Thus is a coordinate singularity of the original chart and is crossed by this spacetime extension.

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