Nonrotating and rotating black holes with secondary disformal hair in a ghost-free metric-affine parity-violating scalar-torsion theory

Abstract

In this paper, we formulate a ghost-free metric-affine scalar-torsion model in which a pseudoscalar field is coupled to the Nieh--Yan density and derivatively coupled to the Einstein-Palatini tensor. The theory is projectively invariant and, in the shift-symmetric sector, depends on the scalar only through its gradient. After fixing the projective gauge, the independent connection is solved exactly: its symmetric part is the Levi-Civita connection associated with the metric \(h_{μν}\), disformally related to the metric $g_{μν}$, while its antisymmetric part is a purely axial torsion sourced by $v_μ=\partial_μ\vartheta$. We identify a degenerate ghost-free branch, $α=6β^2κ^2$, for which Ricci-flat geometries in the $h$-metric frame solve the metric equations and the Noether current vanishes identically. For example, we consider Schwarzschild and Kerr geometries in the $h$-metric frame, which generate disformal deformations on these geometries from the perspective of the $g$-metric frame. For the Schwarzschild black hole in the $h$-metric frame, we construct static and Babichev--Charmousis-like time-dependent scalar profiles, and discuss horizon regularity in Eddington--Finkelstein coordinates. For the Kerr black hole in the $h$-metric frame, we show that the fixed-norm scalar profile is generically axisymmetric, depending on both the radial and angular coordinates, and we construct a stationary future-regular profile in ingoing Kerr coordinates. The Kerr solution with the nontrivial scalar field is stealth only in the $h$-metric frame. In the $g$-metric frame, it produces disformal corrections stemming from the nontrivial scalar field profile and it represents secondary disformal scalar hair rather than primary Noether-charge hair.