2007/11/21 by Kevin Goldstein, Goldstein, Kevin, Hossein Yavartanoo +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0711.3374
10 pages, 2 figures, pdflatex
arxiv created 2007/11/21 · openalex publication_date 2007/11/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We examine four dimensional magnetically charged extremal black holes in certain non-linear U(1) gauge theories coupled to two derivative gravity. For a given coupling, one can tune the magnetic charge (or vice versa) so that the curvature singularity at the centre of the space-time is cancelled. Since these solutions have a horizon but no singularity, they have been called regular black holes. Contrary to recent claims in the literature, we find that the entropy function formalism reproduces the near horizon geometry and gives the correct entropy for these objects.