Families of regular spacetimes and energy conditions

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Zi-Liang, Battista, Emmanuele
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author Wang, Zi-Liang
Battista, Emmanuele
author_facet Wang, Zi-Liang
Battista, Emmanuele
contents We present a systematic method for constructing static, spherically symmetric regular spacetimes in general relativity satisfying the weak energy condition. Our approach relies on physically reasonable assumptions on the matter energy density, together with the boundedness of the Kretschmann scalar. The latter property ensures the finiteness of all curvature invariants and, for the configurations considered, is equivalent to the completeness of causal geodesics. By classifying admissible density profiles according to their complexity, we recover well-known regular black hole solutions such as the Bardeen, Hayward, and Dymnikova models, which are thus naturally embedded in a unified and broader framework. Within this setting, we also derive closed-form expressions for several new families of regular geometries involving hypergeometric or incomplete Gamma functions, which in many cases reduce to elementary functions including algebraic, logarithmic, arctangent, and exponential forms. The emergence of horizons and photon spheres, as well as matching conditions to a Schwarzschild exterior, are also investigated.
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spellingShingle Families of regular spacetimes and energy conditions
Wang, Zi-Liang
Battista, Emmanuele
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We present a systematic method for constructing static, spherically symmetric regular spacetimes in general relativity satisfying the weak energy condition. Our approach relies on physically reasonable assumptions on the matter energy density, together with the boundedness of the Kretschmann scalar. The latter property ensures the finiteness of all curvature invariants and, for the configurations considered, is equivalent to the completeness of causal geodesics. By classifying admissible density profiles according to their complexity, we recover well-known regular black hole solutions such as the Bardeen, Hayward, and Dymnikova models, which are thus naturally embedded in a unified and broader framework. Within this setting, we also derive closed-form expressions for several new families of regular geometries involving hypergeometric or incomplete Gamma functions, which in many cases reduce to elementary functions including algebraic, logarithmic, arctangent, and exponential forms. The emergence of horizons and photon spheres, as well as matching conditions to a Schwarzschild exterior, are also investigated.
title Families of regular spacetimes and energy conditions
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03428