Based on the Newman-Janis algorithm, the Ay\'on-Beato-Garc\'\ia spacetime metric [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5056 (1998)

We construct regular rotating black hole and no-horizon spacetimes based on the recently introduced spherically symmetric generic regular black hole spacetimes related to electric or magnetic charge under nonlinear electrodynamics coupled to general relativity that for special values of the spacetime parameters reduce to the Bardeen and Hayward spacetimes. We show that the weak and strong energy conditions are violated inside the Cauchy horizons of these generic rotating black holes. We give the boundary between the rotating black hole and no-horizon spacetimes and determine the black hole horizons and the boundary of the ergosphere. We introduce the separated Carter equations for the geodesic motion in these rotating spacetimes. For the most interesting new class of the regular spacetimes, corresponding for magnetic charges to the Maxwell field in the weak field limit of the nonlinear electrodynamics, we determine the structure of the circular geodesics and discuss their properties. We study the epicyclic motion of a neutral particle moving along the stable circular orbits around the “Maxwellian” rotating regular black holes. We show that epicyclic frequencies measured by the distant observers and related to the oscillatory motion of the neutral test particle along the stable circular orbits around the rotating singular and regular Maxwellian black holes are always smaller than ones in the Kerr spacetime.

We study scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational test fields in the Hayward, Bardeen, and Ayón-Beato-García regular black hole spacetimes and demonstrate that the test fields are stable in all of these spacetimes. Using the sixth order WKB approximation of the linear “axial” perturbative scheme, we determine dependence of the quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies on the characteristic parameters of the test fields and the spacetime charge parameters of the regular black holes. We give also the grey body factors, namely, the transmission and reflection coefficients of scattered scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational waves. We show that the damping of the quasinormal modes in regular black hole spacetimes is suppressed compared to the case of Schwarzschild black holes, and increasing the charge parameter of the regular black holes increases reflection and decreases the transmission factor of the incident waves for each of the test fields.

The electromagnetic (EM) perturbations of the black hole solutions in general relativity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) are studied for both electrically and magnetically charged black holes, assuming that the EM perturbations do not alter the spacetime geometry. It is shown that the effective potentials of the electrically and magnetically charged black holes related to test perturbative NED EM fields are related to the effective metric governing the photon motion, contrary to the effective potential of the linear electrodynamic (Maxwell) field that is related to the spacetime metric. Consequently, corresponding quasinormal (QN) frequencies differ as well. As a special case, we study new family of the NED black hole solutions which tend in the weak field limit to the Maxwell field, giving the Reissner-Nordström (RN) black hole solution. We compare the NED Maxwellian black hole QN spectra with the RN black hole QN spectra.