$D$-dimensional aether charged black hole and aether waves in M-subset of Einstein-aether theory
Abstract
We study the black hole solution and gravitational wave polarizations in a M-subset of the Einstein-aether theory with Lorentz invariance violated by an unit norm vector field -- the aether field . This M-subset of Einstein-aether theory has a form of Einstein-Maxwell theory with a term of Lagrange multiplier potential . When the aether field is timelike or spacelike, there exists a static solution -- -dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom form of black hole solution, in which the aether charge have a minimum and maximum values. This conception of the aether charge doesn't exist in the subset of the Einstein-aether theory. The Smarr formula and the first law can be exactly constructed via the extended method of Killing potential. For the linearized M-subset Einstein-aether theory with the timelike aether field, we find the speed of spin-2 modes is unit, which aren't dependent on spacetime dimensions and aether constant , but some parts of polarizations are disappeared. The speed of spin-1 modes is unit also. The third kind mode is the longitudinal aether-metric mode, which is linearly time dependent and not the spin-0 mode reported in the subset Einstein-aether theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.08184,
title = {$D$-dimensional aether charged black hole and aether waves in M-subset of Einstein-aether theory},
author = {Chikun Ding and Yuebing Zhou and Yu Shi and Xiangyun Fu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08184},
year = {2026}
}
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16 pages, 2 figure