Lagrangian reverse engineering for regular black holes

Abstract

Nonlinear extensions of classical Maxwell's electromagnetism are among the prominent candidates for theories admitting regular black hole solutions. A quest for such examples has been fruitful, but mostly unsystematic and littered by the introduction of physically unrealistic Lagrangians. We provide a procedure which admits the reconstruction of a nonlinear electromagnetic Lagrangian, consistent with the Euler--Heisenberg Lagrangian in the weak-field limit, from a given metric representing a regular, magnetically charged black hole.