Schwarzschild manifold and non-regular coordinate transformations (A critico-historical Note)

Abstract

A careful analysis of the maximally extended metrics of Schwarzschild manifold shows that the original Schwarzschild's solution (1916) and Brillouin's solution (1923) are the only ones that are adequate from the physical standpoint. Contrary to the other maximally extended metrics, they represent faithfully the gravity field created by the mass-point.