https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14999-w
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Scalar quasinormal modes, Lyapunov exponents and radii of null geodesics of rotating regular black holes
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Key Laboratory of Atomic and Subatomic Structure and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Structure and Fundamental Interactions of Matter, School of Physics, South China Normal University, 510006, Guangzhou, China
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Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Quantum Matter, South China Normal University, 510006, Guangzhou, China
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Received:
12
July
2025
Accepted:
24
October
2025
Published online:
16
November
2025
Abstract
The quasinormal modes of massless scalar field in rotating Bardeen and Hayward regular black holes are studied. The fundamental quasinormal modes and 
first overtone quasinormal modes are calculated with the matrix method. Influences of model parameters on the quasinormal modes are also discussed. The quasinormal modes in rotating Hayward black hole have just percent-level increase compared with that in the Kerr black hole case due to the deviation parameter g, while there is ten-percent-level increase for the quasinormal modes in the rotating Bardeen black hole due to 
. It is found that the monotonicity of fundamental and quasinormal modes in the rotating Bardeen black hole is different. An interesting crossing phenomenon is also found for QNMs with different multipole numbers when we vary the parameter in the Bardeen case. The corotating and counterrotating Lyapunov exponents of the equatorial null circular geodesics in the two rotating black holes are also calculated. Then, the connection between the imaginary parts and real parts of the eikonal quasinormal modes, particularly the first overtone ones, and the properties of the null geodesics in the two rotating regular black holes are explicitly verified.
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