This analysis reveals how back-reaction from the modulus field stabilizes mass inflation in black holes, indicating the stability of the inner horizon.
The companion paper established that the inner (Cauchy) horizon of CCEGA regular black holes carries a negative surface gravity κ₁ ≈ −3.47 c³/GM, driving the mass inflation instability, but that the modulus field φ damps the effective growth rate by a factor G_eff(r₁)/G ≈ 0.23 in the linear regime. Here we extend the analysis to the full non-linear regime using a coupled perturbation-field system. We find that the φ field back-reaction completely halts mass inflation: the growing perturbation drives φ → 1 at the inner horizon, extinguishing the effective gravitational coupling G_eff → 0 and terminating the instability on a finite timescale v_stab ≈ 11.5 GM/c³ (≈ 1.7 ms for 30 M☉). The critical back-reaction coupling required for stabilisation is λ_crit ≈ 2×10⁻⁶, while the physical CCEGA coupling is λ_phys ≈ 0.23 — a safety margin of ~10⁵. The inner horizon is therefore non-linearly stable in CCEGA for all physically motivated parameter values. This result closes the primary open problem of the CCEGA information preservation programme: the regular core is permanent, the Dirichlet boundary condition is robust, and the unitarity of the scattering matrix is confirmed against non-linear perturbations.
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