Foliation of Schwarzschild, Reissner–Nordström and suture universe model metrics revisited

Abstract

I had worked with John Wheeler on York-time foliation of a black hole in a closed Universe (1978–1993), on my own, and with my students, Amjad Parvez and Azad Siddiqui, on that and foliation of asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes from then till 2013. In July 2021, the work by Gerard ’t Hooft and others, presented in MG16, seemed to have “rediscovered” what we had found much earlier. The work of Roy Kerr and others displayed confusion that could be cleared up by those insights. I review this material.