Extended Geometry of Black Holes
Abstract
We reconsider space-time singularities in classical Einsteinian general relativity: with the help of several new co-ordinate systems we show that the Schwarzschild solution can be extended beyond the curvature singularity at r=0. The extension appears as an infinite covering of standard Kruskal space-time. While the two-dimensional reduction of this infinite sequence of Kruskal-Szekeres domains obtained by suppressing the angular degrees of freedom is still a topological manifold - albeit one for which the metric structure is singular on one-dimensional submanifolds - we obtain for the full four-dimensional geometry the more general structure of a stratified variety.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9407006,
title = {Extended Geometry of Black Holes},
author = {K. Peeters and C. Schweigert and J. W. van Holten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9407006},
year = {2010}
}
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9pp. (A4) LaTeX, epsf.sty, 1 figure, appended as a compressed and uuencoded postscript file, NIKHEF-H/94-03