Analytic nondegenerate shift-symmetric Horndeski theories admit no static spherical regular black holes with a time-independent scalar; the unique marginal nonanalytic completion is sGB, whose hairy solutions remain centrally singular.
Dynamical Formation of Regular Black Holes
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We study dynamical gravitational collapse in a theory with an infinite tower of higher-derivative corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action and we show that, under very general conditions, it leads to the formation of regular black holes. Our results are facilitated by the use of a class of theories that possess second-order equations on spherically symmetric metrics, but which are general enough to provide a basis for the gravitational effective action. We analytically solve the collapse of a thin shell of dust and show that it inevitably experiences a bounce at small radius and that its motion can be extended to arbitrary proper time. The collapse of the shell always gives rise to a singularity-free, geodesically complete spacetime that contains horizons if the total mass is above a critical value. In that case, the shell bounces into a new universe through a white hole explosion. Our construction provides, to the best of our knowlege, the first fully dynamical description of formation of regular black holes, and it suggests that higher-derivative corrections may be the most natural way to resolve the singularities of Einstein's theory.
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Infinite-derivative completions of quasitopological gravities are ghost-free, avoid strong coupling, and admit exact spherically symmetric vacuum regular black holes obeying a perturbative Birkhoff theorem.
Unique quasi-topological theories with first-order equations are found for Taub-NUT, NHEK, swirling and related 4D symmetric metrics, enabling closed-form solutions and regular black holes from high-order curvature corrections.
Regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity lack null thin shells in standard distributional theory, invalidating the usual mass inflation derivation and leaving inner horizon stability unresolved.
Regular black holes in the bulk of quasi-topological gravity drive a de Sitter inflationary phase on the brane at small scales, with e-fold number set by the ratio of black hole radius to higher-curvature scale.
Regular Vaidya solutions exist in effective gravitational theories that dynamically describe radiation-driven formation of regular black holes or mimickers without curvature singularities.
Charged Bardeen and Hayward metrics become singular under deformed Einstein–Maxwell equations; more stringent regularity conditions are derived and improved regular charged metrics are constructed.
Dynamical black-hole-to-white-hole transitions require a violation of the null convergence condition for the trapped region to disappear and the anti-trapped region to form.
Regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity produce shifted electromagnetic absorption spectra and modified photon sphere radii relative to singular Tangherlini solutions, with deviations suppressed as spacetime dimensions increase.
Massive scalar quasinormal modes in quasi-topological black holes become long-lived as scalar mass grows, while photon-sphere radius, shadow size, and ISCO exhibit moderate deviations from Schwarzschild.
Higher dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity have suppressed grey-body factors and Hawking radiation compared to singular black holes in general relativity.
Regular primordial black holes can evaporate completely like singular ones and yield the observed dark matter density under modified cosmological constraints.
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Static regular black holes in Horndeski theories: analytic no-go and nonanalytic obstructions
Analytic nondegenerate shift-symmetric Horndeski theories admit no static spherical regular black holes with a time-independent scalar; the unique marginal nonanalytic completion is sGB, whose hairy solutions remain centrally singular.
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Regular Black Holes in Nonlocal Quasitopological Gravity
Infinite-derivative completions of quasitopological gravities are ghost-free, avoid strong coupling, and admit exact spherically symmetric vacuum regular black holes obeying a perturbative Birkhoff theorem.
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Quasi-topological gravity for 4-dimensional Taub-NUT, near-horizon extreme Kerr, and swirling symmetries
Unique quasi-topological theories with first-order equations are found for Taub-NUT, NHEK, swirling and related 4D symmetric metrics, enabling closed-form solutions and regular black holes from high-order curvature corrections.
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On mass inflation and thin shells in quasi-topological gravity
Regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity lack null thin shells in standard distributional theory, invalidating the usual mass inflation derivation and leaving inner horizon stability unresolved.
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Cosmic Inflation From Regular Black Holes
Regular black holes in the bulk of quasi-topological gravity drive a de Sitter inflationary phase on the brane at small scales, with e-fold number set by the ratio of black hole radius to higher-curvature scale.
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Regular Vaidya solutions of effective gravitational theories
Regular Vaidya solutions exist in effective gravitational theories that dynamically describe radiation-driven formation of regular black holes or mimickers without curvature singularities.
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Charging up regular black holes
Charged Bardeen and Hayward metrics become singular under deformed Einstein–Maxwell equations; more stringent regularity conditions are derived and improved regular charged metrics are constructed.
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Null geodesic defocusing in dynamical black-hole-to-white-hole transitions
Dynamical black-hole-to-white-hole transitions require a violation of the null convergence condition for the trapped region to disappear and the anti-trapped region to form.
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Scattering of electromagnetic field in quasi-topological gravity
Regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity produce shifted electromagnetic absorption spectra and modified photon sphere radii relative to singular Tangherlini solutions, with deviations suppressed as spacetime dimensions increase.
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Long-lived quasinormal modes, shadows and particle motion in four-dimensional quasi-topological gravity
Massive scalar quasinormal modes in quasi-topological black holes become long-lived as scalar mass grows, while photon-sphere radius, shadow size, and ISCO exhibit moderate deviations from Schwarzschild.
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Grey-body factors of higher dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological theories
Higher dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity have suppressed grey-body factors and Hawking radiation compared to singular black holes in general relativity.
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Dark matter production from evaporation of regular primordial black holes
Regular primordial black holes can evaporate completely like singular ones and yield the observed dark matter density under modified cosmological constraints.