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Replacing a black hole's central singularity with a smooth core does not restore determinism: scalar perturbations cross the Cauchy horizon and strong cosmic censorship fails.

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load-bearing objection A solid, believable SCC analysis for massless scalars in ABGB-dS, but the headline massive-scalar β>1 result rests on a finite mode search that isn't yet airtight. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2607.24119 v1 pith:CXZBF3TK submitted 2026-07-27 gr-qc

Scalar perturbations and strong cosmic censorship in a regular ABGB-de Sitter black hole spacetime

Hang Liu , Hong Guo This is my paper
classification gr-qc MSC 83C5783C7583C05 PACS 04.70.-s04.20.Cv
keywords strong cosmic censorshipregular black holesquasinormal modesscalar perturbationsCauchy horizonde Sitter spacetimenear-extremal black holesnonlinear electrodynamics
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

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This paper asks whether removing the central singularity of a charged black hole—via nonlinear electrodynamics in the regular ABGB-de Sitter spacetime—changes the fate of strong cosmic censorship at the inner Cauchy horizon. It claims that for massless scalar perturbations, near-extremal ABGB-dS black holes violate Christodoulou's strong cosmic censorship: the regularity exponent β exceeds the threshold 1/2. It further claims that, compared with the Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black hole, the violation sets in at a lower charge ratio for small cosmological constant, though the tendency reverses for large cosmological constant. For massive scalar perturbations, the mass does not restore censorship but worsens the violation, driving β above 1, which means the perturbed field extends across the Cauchy horizon with C1 regularity. If true, this shows that smoothing the core can smooth, rather than protect, the inner horizon—directly connecting the censorship debate to the stability and accessibility of regular black hole interiors.

Core claim

Christodoulou's strong cosmic censorship fails for scalar perturbations in the regular ABGB-dS black hole — a charged, singularity-free solution with nonlinear electrodynamics — near extremality. The criterion is β = −Im ω/κ_-, the slowest-decaying non-zero quasinormal mode over the Cauchy-horizon surface gravity. Massless perturbations give β > 1/2, signalling H1_loc extendibility. The QNM spectrum splits into photon-sphere, de Sitter, and near-extremal families; β_NE is bounded below 1 and eventually dominates. The violation threshold is Q/Q_max ≈ 0.9899 at Λ/Λ_max = 0.09, below RN-dS's 0.9917, reversed at large Λ. A scalar mass does not restore censorship: l = 0 modes reach β > 1, meaning

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is the regularity exponent β = α/κ_-, where α = −Im ω is the decay rate (spectral gap) of the dominant quasinormal mode and κ_- is the surface gravity of the inner Cauchy horizon. Christodoulou's H1 formulation of SCC requires the metric to be inextendible across the Cauchy horizon as a weak solution of the field equations, i.e., with locally square-integrable Christoffel symbols; for a scalar probe, violation corresponds to β > 1/2. The analysis classifies the massless QNM spectrum into photon-sphere, de Sitter, and near-extremal families, approximating the latter by the purely imaginary formula −i(l+n+1)κ_- and the former by eikonal/WKB limits, and computes β for ea

Load-bearing premise

The conclusion rests on the assumption that the finite set of computed modes contains the truly slowest-decaying perturbation, and that a scalar field's regularity faithfully reads off the metric's extendibility in this nonlinear theory.

What would settle it

Compute the quasinormal spectrum of this ABGB-dS black hole including all angular numbers and higher overtones in the charge window Q/Q_max ∈ (0.99, 1) at Λ/Λ_max = 0.09; if any mode yields −Im ω/κ_- < 1/2, the massless violation claim fails. Alternatively, evolve the full nonlinear scalar–metric system and check whether the metric remains H1-inextendible across the Cauchy horizon.

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If this is right

  • If β > 1/2 near extremality, then in this regular black hole the Cauchy horizon is extendible in the sense relevant to Christodoulou's formulation; predictability fails exactly where the interior was expected to be smoothest.
  • A regularity threshold in charge ratio Q/Q_max separates SCC-respected from SCC-violating regions, and this threshold moves with the cosmological constant; small Λ favors earlier violation, large Λ restores censorship.
  • The comparison with RN-dS implies that how the singularity is resolved—or whether it exists at all—can shift the censorship boundary by a measurable amount in parameter space.
  • Massive scalar fields do not act as a 'cosmic censor'; they push β above 1, meaning the perturbed field is C1 across the Cauchy horizon, so curvature need not blow up there.
  • A stable enough interior accessed through a violated SCC would make the regular core, and the quantum-gravity physics it encodes, in principle reachable rather than censored.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A natural next test is to compute the same β for higher overtones and for non-perturbative/full nonlinear evolution; if a higher overtone decays more slowly, the violation window could shrink or vanish.
  • Because the threshold depends on both Q/Q_max and Λ/Λ_max, the boundary curve can be mapped onto gravitational-wave ringdown or black-hole-image observations: the presence or absence of multi-ring structures could indicate whether SCC is violated in real regular candidates.
  • The result suggests that for a large class of regular black holes with inner horizons, adding mass to the probe field generically increases the extendibility regularity (β beyond 1); a proof of this pattern for arbitrary spin or coupling would sharpen the censorship conjecture.
  • A direction the paper leaves implicit: the smoothness of the scalar field hints the full nonlinear metric might be C1-extendible; verifying this would require solving the coupled scalar-metric system rather than treating the scalar as a test field.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper computes quasinormal-mode frequencies for massless and massive Klein-Gordon perturbations on the regular ABGB-de Sitter black hole (Eqs. (1)–(4)), using AIM, WKB with Padé approximants, and a pseudospectral code. Section III presents tables of the fundamental l=0,1,3,5,10 modes as functions of μ, Q, and Λ, including a purely imaginary l=0 mode for μ=0.1. Section IV uses β=-Imω/κ_- (Eq. (22)) to diagnose strong cosmic censorship. For massless perturbations the modes are grouped into photon-sphere, de Sitter, and near-extremal families, and β>1/2 is found in the near-extremal regime; the required Q/Q_max is lower than in RN-dS for small Λ and higher for large Λ. For massive perturbations the same criterion is applied to the same finite set of fundamental modes; the paper reports that scalar mass does not restore SCC and that for sufficiently high Q/Q_max the l=0 mode gives β>1, implying C1-extendible perturbations. The paper concludes that SCC is violated in this regular black hole and that regularization of the core does not protect predictability.

Significance. If correct, the paper would extend SCC phenomenology to regular NED black holes and would make a novel prediction: massive scalar fields can drive the system into the β>1 regime, i.e. C1-extendible scalar perturbations and hence a smoother Cauchy horizon. Strengths include the use of three independent numerical methods, cross-checks of the massless PS/dS/NE modes against eikonal, pure-de Sitter, and RN-dS near-extremal formulas, and an explicit parameter-space boundary. These checks make the massless part credible. However, the massive SCC claim rests on an unproven truncation of the QNM spectrum to fundamental modes at selected l, and the applicability of the scalar-field β>1/2 criterion to metric SCC in Einstein-NED is not established. Both issues are load-bearing for the headline conclusions. The paper also does not present numerical convergence or error-bar information, so the claimed robustness of the results cannot be fully assessed.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. IV C, Fig. 4] The massive β>1 result is obtained from QNFs with l=0,1,3,5,10, fundamental overtone only. The spectral gap α is a global minimum over all QNMs, and no evidence is given that an overtone, a higher l, or an additional branch has a larger decay time. The l=0 curves are non-smooth, indicating branch switching, and β=α/κ_- is sensitive because κ_-→0 near extremality. A missed slower-decaying mode can move β below 1 or even below 1/2. Please provide an exhaustive spectral search with converged eigenvalues over a range of l and n, or an analytic argument that the fundamental l=0 massive mode is the global minimizer.
  2. [Table I and Sec. III] The purely imaginary l=0 mode at μ=0.1 is reported from AIM only and is missed by WKB; no pseudospectral confirmation is shown in Sec. III. Table I also shows about 10% disagreement between AIM and WKB for l=0, μ=0. Since this mode family determines the massive β behavior in Fig. 4, the numerical evidence is incomplete. Add spectral-method results and convergence/error tests for at least the dominant mode at the charge ratios used in the SCC plots.
  3. [Sec. IV A, Tables IV–VI] The massless classification into PS, dS, and NE families is supported by comparing selected representatives (l=10, l=1, l=0) with eikonal, pure-dS, and RN-dS formulas. These checks validate individual modes but do not rule out other branches or overtones in ABGB-dS. For a SCC verdict the global minimum of -Imω is what matters. Please include a spectral survey showing the low-lying spectrum for a fixed Λ, or argue that no other mode can be more long-lived than the three families examined.
  4. [Eq. (22) and Eqs. (1)–(4)] The criterion β>1/2 is a known scalar-field proxy for Christodoulou's SCC in Einstein-scalar/RN-dS-like systems. Here the action couples gravity to nonlinear electrodynamics and the computed field is a neutral test scalar; it is not shown that H^1_loc regularity of this scalar implies metric/Christoffel regularity in the coupled Einstein-NED system. The paper should either clearly state the result as a scalar-field SCC analogue or justify the transfer of the criterion to this theory with a reference or argument. This is a correctness-risk concern, not a circularity issue.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Eq. (5) and Fig. 1] Define Q_max and Λ_max explicitly after the parameter-space boundary formulas; the text uses these symbols but does not specify their definitions.
  2. [Figs. 3 and 4] State which numerical method produced the plotted β values. Add axis labels (horizontal: Q/Q_max; vertical: -Imω/κ_-) and legends identifying the scalar mass values in Fig. 4.
  3. [Table I] For μ=0, l=0, the AIM and WKB results differ by about 10%. Explain the discrepancy and state which value is used in subsequent analyses.
  4. [Fig. 2] Label the axes and clarify in the caption which line corresponds to the purely imaginary branch and which to the complex branch.
  5. [Sec. IV C] The sentence 'the scalar mass cannot save SCC' should be quantitative: the critical Q/Q_max increases with μ, but for each μ a violation still occurs. The present wording is easy to misread as a statement about fixed charge.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: QNMs are computed numerically, β is a derived output, and cited prior results serve as cross-checks rather than inputs.

full rationale

The paper's central result—SCC violation in ABGB-dS, including β>1 for massive scalars—is obtained by numerically solving the radial Klein-Gordon equation with AIM, WKB, and pseudospectral methods, then forming β = -Im ω / κ_- from the computed QNFs. There is no fitted parameter renamed as a prediction: the QNFs are outputs of an eigenvalue calculation, and the SCC criterion β>1/2 is an externally established condition from the literature. The analytic formulas used for PS, dS, and NE modes (Eqs. 23-25) are presented as consistency checks against the numerical data, not as inputs that force the conclusion. Self-citations ([22], [23], [47]) appear in comparisons or background discussion and are not load-bearing for the derivation. The main caveat—that the massive-scalar β>1 result rests on a finite set of fundamental modes l=0,1,3,5,10 without a proof that the spectral gap lies in this set—is a numerical truncation and completeness concern, not circularity, because the calculation does not presuppose the value of β. The paper is therefore self-contained with respect to the claimed derivation, and no circular step can be exhibited from its equations.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the standard scalar-proxy formulation of Christodoulou SCC, the phenomenological ABGB-dS background, and a finite-mode numerical truncation. No free parameters are fitted to data, and no new entities are introduced.

axioms (4)
  • domain assumption For linear scalar perturbations, the Christodoulou SCC criterion β = α/κ_- > 1/2 correctly diagnoses the H1_loc extendibility of the metric across the Cauchy horizon.
    Invoked in Sec. IV via Eq. (22); relies on analogy with RN-dS arguments [8,11] that scalar-field regularity mirrors metric regularity; not proven for NED-supported regular black holes.
  • domain assumption The ABGB-dS metric (Eqs. 3-4) is a physically viable regular black hole with a regular core and an inner Cauchy horizon.
    Background solution taken from Matyjasek et al. [55]; the action's NED Lagrangian Eq. (2) is a phenomenological model, not derived.
  • ad hoc to paper The dominant (slowest-decaying) QNM determining the spectral gap is captured by the fundamental modes of the PS (l=10), dS (l=1), and NE (l=0) families (massless) or by l=0,1,3,5,10 (massive).
    Numerical truncation; no proof that these modes give the global minimum of -Im ω, especially for massive fields where mode classification is not established.
  • standard math Pseudospectral and AIM methods converge to the true QNM spectrum of Eq. (9) with the boundary conditions Eq. (11).
    Standard numerical methods [56,57]; used throughout; convergence is not explicitly demonstrated, only cross-checked between methods.

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We investigate the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of scalar perturbations and strong cosmic censorship (SCC) in regular Ay\'on-Beato-Garc\'ia-Bronnikov-de Sitter (ABGB-dS) black hole spacetime. The main motivation of this work is to clarify whether the regularization of black hole core, which removes the central singularity, can also change the fate of SCC connected to the Cauchy horizon. We first study the dependence of the scalar QNM frequency (QNF) on the scalar mass and black hole parameters. For angular number $l=0$, a small scalar mass can give rise to a slowly decaying mode which is purely imaginary. We also find that the black hole charge and cosmological constant affect the QNM spectrum in qualitatively opposite ways. We then examine SCC under massless and massive scalar perturbations. For massless perturbations, the QNMs spectrum can be organized into photon sphere (PS), de Sitter (dS) and near-extremal (NE) families. Compared with the SCC in the Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter (RN-dS) case, SCC is generally more easily violated in the ABGB-dS spacetime, although this tendency is reversed for sufficiently large cosmological constant. For massive scalar perturbations, we find that the scalar mass does not restore SCC. Instead, it can enhance the violation by driving the system into the regime $\beta>1$. At last, we discuss what we may expect from the violation of SCC in a regular black hole spacetime.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.24119 by Hang Liu, Hong Guo.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1: The parameter space of ABGB-dS black hole. The interior of the parameter space [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2: The behaviors of imaginary part of fundamental QNF of two classes of QNMs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3: The behaviors of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: The behaviors of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_4.png] view at source ↗

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