Non-Riemannian acoustic black hole: Hawking radiation and broken Lorentz symmetry

A non-Riemannian geometrical approach to the investigation of an acoustic black hole in irrotational mean flows, based on the Lighthill vortex sound theory is given. This additional example of analog gravity based on classical fluids is used to investigate the acoustic Lorentz violation. An example is given where the contortion vector is distributed along a ring inside the fluid which can be gravitational analog of the torsion thick string spacetime defect. It is found that the linear background flow velocity approximation, acoustic Lorentz symmetry is breaking by the acoustic Cartan contortion in analogy to the spontaneous gravitational Lorentz breaking in Riemann-Cartan spacetime discovered recently by Kostelecky. Although the acoustic torsion appears in the fiducial observer acceleration it is not present in surface gravity of the acoustic black hole and we conclude that, as far as the present model is concerned, the acoustic contortion does not contributes to Hawking radiation. Departamento de F́ısica Teórica Instituto de F́ısica UERJ Rua São Fco. Xavier 524, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Maracanã, CEP:20550-003 , Brasil. E-Mail.: [email protected]