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pervect said:It's necessary (but not sufficient) for a metric to have a negative determinant for it to be Lorentzian, I believe.
This is correct, and it means the line element as it's written down in the OP can only be valid for ##r > 2M##. But that, in itself, does not show that the spacetime geometry itself does not extend to a region that corresponds to ##r \le 2M##; it just shows that, if there is such a region, it can't be described by a coordinate chart of the form given in the OP.
pervect said:I'm pretty sure the stress-energy tensor is really a tensor density.
Not if you're referring to the thing that appears on the RHS of the Einstein Field Equation. That's a tensor.
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