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Pith's one-line read The paper claims that smooth kinematical transitions between singular and regular black holes, horizonless compact objects, and bounces generically violate the null convergence condition at intermediate times, even when both endpoint…

desk verdict Correct and honest kinematics: transitions to regular black holes force transient NCC violations, and the mean-value theorem makes the result independent of the specific interpolant; the real caveat is dynamics, which the paper openly leaves out. read the letter →

arxiv 2502.00548 v3 pith:2N3GBLAN submitted 2025-02-01 gr-qc

Johanna Borissova , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser This is my paper · ORCID
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Regular black holes like Bardeen's and Dymnikova's satisfy the null convergence condition (NCC) in their stationary form, so they evade the Penrose singularity theorem only through global assumptions, chiefly the presence of a Cauchy horizon. This paper sets up smooth kinematical transitions between such static spacetimes and asks whether the NCC can hold all the way through. It finds that it cannot: in the interpolating models, the NCC is violated at intermediate times whenever the mass function decreases (for transitions with $R(r,v)=r$) or whenever the radial function develops a positive second derivative (for bounces and wormholes). The central conclusion is that forming these regular objects requires transient NCC violation of a purely kinematic kind, independent of any specific gravitational dynamics. If true, this locates the evasion of Penrose's theorem in the dynamical process itself rather than in the final stationary geometry.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is the kinematical interpolation ansatz of Eqs. (16) and (24): a smooth step function $\sigma(v)$ that switches from 0 to 1 is used to take convex combinations of the initial and final mass functions, $m(r,v) = (1-\sigma)m_i + \sigma m_f$, and of the initial and final radial functions, $R(r,v) = (1-\sigma)R_i + \sigma R_f$, with an analogue for length parameters. Because $\dot\sigma>0$ during the transition, the sign of $\dot m$ is controlled by $\Delta m = m_f - m_i$, and the sign of $R''$ is controlled by $\Delta R'' = R''_f - R''_i$. The central identities are $R_{\mu\nu} k^\mu k^\nu = -2R''/R$ and, for $R=r$, $R_{\mu\nu} l^\mu l^\nu = 2\dot m/r^2$, which convert the NCC into two elementary derivative inequalities. This reduces the question of whether a transition can respect the NCC to the relative shapes of the endpoint mass and radial profiles.

What would settle it

Exhibit one explicit smooth, spherically symmetric, globally hyperbolic dynamical spacetime that begins as Schwarzschild (or an integrable-singularity black hole), ends as Bardeen (or Dymnikova), and satisfies the NCC for all times and all null vectors. Under the paper's interpolation ansatz this is impossible, because $\dot m = (m_f-m_i)\dot\sigma$ is negative wherever $m_f<m_i$; a single NCC-respecting interpolation of this type would refute the claim that transient violation is unavoidable.

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Core claim

Working with spherically symmetric metrics in ingoing Eddington–Finkelstein form, $ds^2 = -f(r,v)dv^2 + 2drdv + R(r,v)^2 d\Omega^2$, the paper derives that for $R=r$ the radial null convergence condition reduces to $\dot m \ge 0$, where $m$ is the mass function, while for geometries with a throat it reduces to $R'' \le 0$ at the throat. It then constructs transitions by convex interpolation, $m(r,v)=(1-\sigma(v))m_i(r)+\sigma(v)m_f(r)$ and similarly for $R$, with a smooth step $\sigma$. For transitions from a Schwarzschild or integrable-singularity black hole to Bardeen or Dymnikova regular black holes, $m_f(r)<m_i(r)$ on an open region, so $\dot m<0$ and the NCC is violated throughout the transition even though both endpoints satisfy the NCC. The same happens for transitions from a regular black hole to its horizonless compact counterpart when the regularization length increases, and for black-bounce and wormhole transitions the positive $R''$ near the throat gives unavoidable violation. The paper concludes that NCC violation is a generic, seemingly unavoidable feature of such kinematical transitions.

Load-bearing premise

The paper's conclusion rests on assuming that real dynamical transitions are faithfully represented by the linear convex interpolation of the mass and radial functions; if actual collapse proceeds along a different evolutionary path, with non-monotonic or non-linear mixing, the inevitability of NCC violation is not established.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Any smooth transition from a Schwarzschild black hole to a Bardeen or Dymnikova regular black hole, within this interpolation class, passes through a phase of NCC violation near the origin where the interpolated mass is decreasing.
  • A transition from a regular black hole to a horizonless compact object of the same family violates the NCC whenever the regularization length parameter grows, even though the two stationary endpoints individually satisfy the NCC.
  • Transitions into black-bounce or wormhole geometries violate the NCC because the interpolated radial function acquires a positive second derivative at the throat; for these endpoints the NCC is also violated in the stationary final state.
  • The Penrose singularity theorem is therefore evaded dynamically in these models: the focusing condition fails during the transition, not at the static endpoint, and no Cauchy horizon is needed for the evasion.
  • In any realistic dynamical completion, the transient NCC violation would have to be supplied by quantum effects, so the renormalized stress-energy tensor would have to violate the null energy condition in precisely the spacetime region identified by these inequalities.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The specific examples are probably instantiations of a more general statement: for any two static spherically symmetric spacetimes with $R=r$ and equal ADM mass, if the final mass profile lies below the initial one on any open set, every monotone convex interpolation violates the NCC; the paper states this pattern but does not elevate it to a theorem.
  • A dynamical proof that the interpolating family is the unique or dominant path to regular black holes would turn 'NCC violation occurs in these models' into 'NCC violation is unavoidable in nature'; the paper explicitly leaves such a formal universality proof as desirable.
  • For wormhole endpoints the violation is not a transient artifact of the interpolation, since the final geometry itself violates the NCC; the sharp claim to test is therefore the intermediate-time violation for regular-black-hole endpoints, which could serve as a target for numerical collapse codes.
  • The same inequalities could be used to reverse the logic: given a plausible quantum-gravity-corrected metric during collapse, checking the sign of $\dot m$ and $R''$ supplies a fast diagnostic for where the null energy condition must break down.
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Summary. The paper analyzes the null convergence condition (NCC) in time-dependent spherically symmetric spacetimes of the form (1), focusing on kinematical transitions between static geometries: singular black holes to regular black holes, regular black holes to horizonless compact objects, singular black holes to bounces/wormholes, and bounces to naked wormholes. The authors derive general NCC expressions for the two radial null vectors, Eqs. (4), (5), (8), and (9), and then construct smooth interpolations of the mass and radial functions, Eqs. (16), (19), (24), and (26), to model the transitions. They find that, for the chosen examples, the NCC is violated at intermediate times even when both end-point geometries satisfy the NCC, and they interpret this in the context of the Penrose singularity theorem and the formation of regular black holes.

Significance. The paper provides a clear and correct demonstration that transient NCC violations are generic within the kinematic class considered. The algebraic derivations in Section II are transparent, and the examples in Section III are concrete, with figures that allow the violations to be identified explicitly. The authors are careful to state that their analysis is kinematic, that no specific dynamics is assumed, and that a formal proof of universality is not provided. If the results hold, they sharpen the geometric constraints on dynamical models of regular black hole formation and connect the evasion of the Penrose theorem to transient NCC violation rather than to stationary inner horizons alone. The paper also correctly distinguishes the NCC from the NEC and engages with the singularity-theorem literature.

minor comments (6)
  1. [Section I] There is a typo on page 3: 'explicity' should read 'explicitly'.
  2. [Section IV] On page 19, 'gemoetries' should be 'geometries', and 'thermodynamics quantities' should be 'thermodynamic quantities'.
  3. [Section III.A] Around Eq. (14), the paper should state explicitly that the interpolation is performed at fixed coordinate r and that the initial and final times v_i and v_f are set to 0 and 1 without loss of generality; this would clarify the coordinate conventions used in the plots.
  4. [Figure 11] The caption of Fig. 11 refers to a 'Simpson–Visser black hole', but the text in Section III.D.2 and the figure content describe a transition to a Simpson–Visser naked wormhole; the caption should be corrected for consistency.
  5. [Abstract and Section IV] The abstract's statement that NCC violations 'occur frequently' and the Discussion's phrase 'seemingly unavoidable' are not formal theorems. The authors do acknowledge in Section IV that 'a formal proof of the universality of this behaviour would certainly be desirable', but the abstract should more precisely state that the results hold for the interpolating metrics (16) and (24) under the conditions (18), (22), (25), and (27), and that the broader claim is not proven.
  6. [References] Reference [5] is listed only as 'To Appear' with no further information; if an arXiv identifier or journal reference is available, it should be provided.

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No significant circularity: the NCC-violation results follow self-containedly from the explicit interpolation ansatz and are neither fitted inputs nor conclusions assumed by definition.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained. From the spherically symmetric line element (1) and the definition of the NCC (2), the authors compute the contractions for the radial null vectors, obtaining Eq. (4) for R_mu nu k^mu k^nu and Eq. (8) for R_mu nu l^mu l^nu in the R(r,v)=r case. The kinematic transition is then specified by an explicit ansatz: the mass function is the convex combination (16) and the radial function is the convex combination (24), with a monotone smooth transition function sigma(v). No parameter is fitted to data and no external benchmark is invoked. The key sign conditions are direct algebra: Eq. (17) gives \dot m = (m_f - m_i)\dot\sigma, so Eq. (8) changes sign exactly when m_f(r) < m_i(r), as stated in Eq. (18). Likewise, Eq. (25) makes R'' a convex combination of R_i'' and R_f'', so Eq. (4) gives NCC violation whenever the final radial profile has positive second derivative, as stated in Section III D. These are consequences of the stated model, not restatements of the conclusion. The paper does not claim to derive the interpolation from dynamics; it explicitly says 'we do not consider fully realistic collapse scenarios' and limits the analysis to 'kinematic models that interpolate between standard physics and regular black holes.' That is a scope limitation, not circularity. The self-citations to [5], [14], [23], [24], [25] and [29-31] are used for background, motivation, and example geometries, but the central NCC computation in Section II and the interpolation argument in Section III do not depend on those citations. The endpoint spacetimes being NCC-satisfying is checked explicitly, e.g., '(2m' - rm'') > 0 (that is, rho' < 0) for these specific mass profiles.' No step reduces, by definition or by authority, to the target claim that NCC violation occurs during the transitions. The honest finding is therefore no significant circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new entities. The central calculation rests on the spherically symmetric line element (1), a smooth transition function sigma(v), and a linear interpolation of mass and radial functions. The length parameters l_i, l_f are free model parameters that control whether the NCC is violated via the sign of the mass difference. The physical relevance depends on the unproven premise that such interpolated spacetimes represent real dynamical transitions.

free parameters (1)
  • length parameters l_i, l_f = various: e.g., l_i/M = 1, l_f/M = 1/2 for Bardeen; l_i/M = 0, l_f/M = 1 for Schwarzschild to Dymnikova; etc.
    These parametrize the regular black hole models and are chosen by hand to illustrate the transitions. The sign of the mass difference, and therefore the presence of NCC violation, depends on their relative values.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Spherical symmetry and the line element (1) with R >= 0.
    The entire analysis is restricted to spherically symmetric spacetimes in ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, stated at the start of Section II.
  • ad hoc to paper The interpolated metrics (16) and (24) are smooth and define valid spacetimes.
    The transition function sigma(v) is C^infinity by construction (Eq. 14). This is a mathematical convenience, not derived from physics.
  • domain assumption The NCC can be evaluated kinematically without specifying dynamics.
    The authors deliberately avoid assuming Einstein equations; the NCC is treated as a purely geometric condition. Whether the interpolated metrics are physical solutions is not addressed.
  • domain assumption Global hyperbolicity can be maintained during the transition (inner horizon not a Cauchy horizon).
    This is the premise that makes the Penrose theorem relevant to the intermediate stages; the paper argues it holds in dynamical settings but does not prove it for the constructed models.

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How do regular black holes evade the Penrose singularity theorem? Various models of stationary regular black holes globally satisfy the null convergence condition (NCC). At first glance this might seem puzzling, as the NCC must generically be violated to avoid the focusing point implied by the Penrose theorem. In fact, the Penrose singularity theorem depends on subtle global assumptions and does not provide information about where and when the singularity actually forms. In particular inner horizons are typically reached at finite affine parameter, before null geodesic focusing occurs, and the region inside the inner horizon is not itself a trapped region. Specifically, the Bardeen, Dymnikova, Hayward models of stationary regular black holes feature an inner Cauchy horizon which violates global hyperbolicity, hence violating one of the key assumptions of Penrose's singularity theorem, and furthermore challenging their viability as long-living end-points of gravitational collapse. In contrast, during non-stationary processes describing kinematic transitions between standard singular black holes and regular black holes or horizonless compact objects, the inner horizon -- when present -- need not act as a Cauchy horizon. This raises the intriguing possibility that the NCC might instead be violated during intermediate stages of such transitions. Our detailed analysis confirms that NCC violations occur frequently during such kinematic transitions, even when the stationary end-point spacetimes respect the NCC. We also investigate analogous transitions toward black-bounce spacetimes and their horizonless compact counterparts, wormholes, where the NCC is always violated. These findings offer new insights into how regular black holes and related objects evade the constraints imposed by the Penrose singularity theorem.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1: Left: Transition function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. shows the metric function f(r, v) and left hand side of the NCC in equation (28) for an initial geometry corresponding to a black hole with an integrable singularity and a final geometry corresponding to a regular Bardeen black hole [6]. The mass functions are given by mi(r) = M  r r + li  and mf (r) = M   r 3  r 2 + l 2 f  3 2   . (29) It is easy to check that (2m′ − rm′′) > 0 (that is, ρ ′ < 0) for these… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3: Plots of the metric function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: Plots of the metric function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5: Plots of the metric function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: shows the metric function f(r, v) and left hand side of the NCC in equation (28) for an initial geometry corresponding to a Bardeen regular black hole and a final geometry corresponding to a Bardeen horizonless compact object. Note that both initial and final spacetime…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: shows the metric function f(r, v) and the NCC in equation (28) for an initial geometry cor￾responding to a Dymnikova regular black hole and a final geometry corresponding to a Dymnikova horizonless compact object. Note that both initial and final spacetimes satisfy the…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: shows the expressions (35) for an initial geometry with parameter li such that the space￾time contains a black hole with an integrable singularity and a final parameter lf such that the spacetime contains a Simpson–Visser black bounce [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9: Plots of the metric function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: shows the expressions (35) for an initial geometry with parameter li such that the spacetime contains a black hole with an integrable singularity and a final parameter lf such that the spacetime contains a Simpson–Visser naked wormhole [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_f…
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11: Plots of the metric function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: shows these expressions for an initial geometry with parameter li such that the spacetime contains a Simpson–Visser black hole and a final parameter lf such that the spacetime contains a Simpson–Visser naked wormhole. Note that now both the initial and final spacetime…

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