Regular Black Holes in Nonlocal Quasitopological Gravity

Pablo Bueno; Pablo A. Cano; Robie A. Hennigar; Ángel J. Murcia

Regular Black Holes in Nonlocal Quasitopological Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-07-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Authors: Pablo Bueno , Pablo A. Cano , Robie A. Hennigar , Ángel J. Murcia

Abstract

We present infinite-derivative completions of Quasitopological gravities that are ghost-free, avoid strong coupling instabilities and admit exact, spherically symmetric vacuum regular-black-hole solutions satisfying a perturbative Birkhoff theorem.

Keywords

regular black holes nonlocal gravity quasitopological gravity infinite-derivative gravity Birkhoff theorem

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.07790,
  title  = {Regular Black Holes in Nonlocal Quasitopological Gravity},
  author = {Pablo Bueno and Pablo A. Cano and Robie A. Hennigar and Ángel J. Murcia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07790},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

5 pages + appendix; no figures