For , , so no horizon blocks need adjoining. The oblate Cartesian coordinates of the Kerr metric satisfy the displayed relation, where . Keeping only the positive root leaves a cut along the disk , . Continue through zero away from its boundary, the Kerr ring singularity, onto a negative-radius sheet. Equivalently cut two Cartesian sheets along the disk and join opposite banks, so changes sign continuously. The metric is analytic at the disk interior in signed oblate coordinates since there. The extension has asymptotically flat ends at and ; only the singular ring remains inextendible by an analytic Lorentz metric.

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