Comment on "construction of regular black holes in general relativity"

We claim that the paper by Zhong-Ying Fan and Xiaobao Wang on nonlinear electrodynamics coupled to general relativity [Phys. Rev. D 94,124027 (2016)PRVDAQ0556-2821], although correct in general, in some respects repeats previously obtained results without giving proper references. There is also an important point missing in this paper, which is necessary for understanding the physics of the system: in solutions with an electric charge, a regular center requires a non-Maxwell behavior of Lagrangian function L(f), (f=FμνFμν) at small f. Therefore, in all electric regular black hole solutions with a Reissner-Nordström asymptotic, the Lagrangian L(f) is different in different parts of space, and the electromagnetic field behaves in a singular way at surfaces where L(f) suffers branching. © 2017 American Physical Society