Potential Space Symmetries in Ernst-like Formulations of Einstein-Maxwell/ModMax-Scalar field Theories
Abstract
We complete the visible, hidden, sectorial, and discrete symmetries of Ernst-like potential spaces in stationary, axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field (EMSF) and Einstein-ModMax-Scalar Field (EMMSF) theories. In the real potential space , we determine the exact visible symmetries and their solvable Lie algebra. We characterize the hidden symmetries on invariant subspaces: Ehlers acts in the gravito-rotational sector, while electric and magnetic Harrison transformations act in static electromagnetic sectors. In the frozen EMMSF regime, , we show how EMSF sectorial transformations are deformed in ModMax theory. We also show that coexistence of electric and magnetic sectorial Harrison transformations imposes and , selecting precisely the frozen ModMax sector. We study the Hamiltonian formulation, Noether charges, and Casimir invariants of the sectorial algebras. In harmonic branches of the one-forms, the affine geodesic energy is constant, so the quadrature for is controlled by the affine-geodesic Hamiltonian. The functions and follow from Noether charges along the Killing directions of and , and are written using dual harmonic functions. We examine the electric and magnetic Lewis-Weyl-Papapetrou frames and their discrete map, which sends , , , and . Finally, we apply the sectorial transformations to harmonic scalar--acuum Weyl seeds with independent gravitational and scalar harmonics. Frozen-ModMax Harrison maps generate charged branches, while Ehlers generates the gravito-rotational branch. For these solutions we give the final quadratures for , , and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.17843,
title = {Potential Space Symmetries in Ernst-like Formulations of Einstein-Maxwell/ModMax-Scalar field Theories},
author = {Leonel Bixano and Tonatiuh Matos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17843},
year = {2026}
}