An asymptotically conical regular black hole in four-dimensional nonpolynomial quasitopological gravity

Abstract

In this work, we construct an asymptotically conical regular black hole in four-dimensional nonpolynomial quasitopological gravity. Starting from a linear choice of the reduced function, which yields an asymptotically conical Schwarzschild-like solution, we introduce a nonlinear deformation that preserves the leading asymptotic cone while producing an exact black hole solution with a de Sitter core and finite curvature invariants. We further establish the corresponding black hole thermodynamics for both solutions within the Hamiltonian and Wald frameworks. The entropy contains rational and logarithmic terms in the regular model, and both solutions satisfy the first law of black hole thermodynamics.