Regular magnetic black holes and monopoles from nonlinear electrodynamics - art. no. 044005

It is shown that general relativity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics (N ED) with the Lagrangian L(F), F=Fmu nuFmu nu having a correct weak field li mit, leads to nontrivial spherically symmetric solutions with a globally re gular metric if and only if the electric charge is zero and L(F) tends to a finite limit as F-->infinity. The properties and examples of such solution s, which include magnetic black holes and solitonlike objects (monopoles), are discussed. Magnetic solutions are compared with their electric counterp arts. A duality between solutions of different theories specified in two al ternative formulations of NED (called the FP duality) is used as a tool fur this comparison.