Probing mass inflation in polymerized vacuum regular black holes via colliding null shells

TL;DR

This paper investigates mass inflation in polymerized vacuum regular black holes inspired by loop quantum gravity, analyzing stability and the effects of a minimal length scale near the inner horizon using colliding null shells.

Contribution

It introduces a class of inner-extremal regular black hole solutions with a degenerate inner horizon, exploring their mass inflation behavior and stability within a quantum-gravity framework.

Findings

Mass inflation occurs only under specific conditions near the inner horizon.

The minimal length scale influences the severity of mass inflation.

Certain configurations remain stable under null-shell perturbations.

Abstract

We derive a class of inner-extremal regular black hole solutions characterized by a degenerate inner horizon. These geometries arise as polymerized vacuum configurations inspired by loop quantum gravity and constitute effective quantum-gravity solutions that admit a Birkhoff-type theorem, rendering them unique within the considered framework. We show that such inner-extremal horizon configurations exist only for a finely tuned value of the mass determined by the parameters of the theory. Building on this construction, together with the corresponding non-degenerate regular black hole solutions, we perform a generic analysis of the mass inflation phenomenon in four-dimensional spacetimes using a colliding null-shell setup near the inner horizon. We identify the conditions under which mass inflation becomes significant and examine how the presence of a minimal length scale affects this behavior, with particular emphasis on the case where such a scale is motivated by loop quantum gravity. Finally, we comment on the stability of these configurations under the null-shell perturbations considered in our analysis.