The Bardeen model as a nonlinear magnetic monopole

Eloy Ayón-Beato, Alberto García

Abstract

The Bardeen model — the first regular black hole model in General Relativity — is reinterpreted as the gravitational field of a nonlinear magnetic monopole, i.e., as a magnetic solution to Einstein equations coupled to a nonlinear electrodynamics.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01125-4