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Einstein-aether Elliptic Charges and the First Law of Asymptotically AdS Black Holes

Walter Arata·Moustafa Ismail·Stefano Liberati·Luke Martin·David Mattingly·Giulio Neri
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We investigate the thermodynamic role of asymptotic aether alignment for universal horizons in Einstein-aether theory. In the static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically AdS sector with $c_{14}=0$, the known first law for universal horizons contains an additional term whenever the aether is misaligned with the timelike Killing vector at infinity. While this term has recently been interpreted in Ho\v{r}ava--Lifshitz gravity as the contribution of an elliptic charge associated with khronon reparameterizations, no corresponding explanation was available in Einstein-aether theory. We show that, in the same sector, Einstein-aether theory possesses a previously unidentified symmetry of the reduced action, generated by infinitesimal transformations of the form $\delta u^a=f a^a$, where $a^a$ is the aether acceleration and $f$ obeys an elliptic constraint. We derive the associated current and charge, and show that the aligned limit is naturally interpreted as the ensemble in which this aether-charge contribution vanishes. This provides the Einstein-aether counterpart of the elliptic-charge mechanism in Ho\v{r}ava--Lifshitz gravity and clarifies the thermodynamic significance of asymptotic aether alignment.

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Walter Arata, Moustafa Ismail, Stefano Liberati, Luke Martin, David Mattingly, Giulio Neri. 2026-06-25. Einstein-aether Elliptic Charges and the First Law of Asymptotically AdS Black Holes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27437

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