Regular black holes without mass-inflation instability and gravastars from modified gravity

TL;DR

This paper presents new regular black hole solutions derived from modified gravity theories with vector fields, avoiding mass-inflation instability and including gravastar configurations.

Contribution

It introduces regular black holes with vector field hair from action principles, ensuring extremality and stability, and proposes a gravastar alternative.

Findings

Regular black holes with vector hair derived from action principles.

Existence of extremal regular black holes with zero surface gravity.

Identification of a gravastar solution within the same framework.

Abstract

We derive regular black-hole solutions, including the Hayward metric, from four-dimensional action principles involving vector fields in addition to the metric. These black holes possess additional hair associated with the vector fields, manifesting as free integration constants that regularize the geometry. These constants can be chosen such that regular black holes of all masses are extremal. As a result, they have vanishing surface gravity and are not susceptible to mass-inflation instability. We also discover another regular black-hole metric with these properties, which constitutes a gravastar for an appropriate choice of integration constant.