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Constraints on possible Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) to first order in $E/M_{\rm Planck}$ for photons in the framework of effective field theory (EFT) are discussed, taking cosmological factors into account. Then, using the reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Floyd W. Stecker

Violations of Lorentz invariance can lead to an energy-dependent vacuum dispersion of light, which results in arrival-time differences of photons arising with different energies from a given transient source. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Bin-Bin Zhang , Lang Shao , Peter Mészáros , V. Alan Kostelecký

Fast variations of gamma-ray flux from Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma-Ray Bursts can constrain Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) because of the delayed (or advanced) arrival of photons with higher energies: this approach has lead to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Markus Gaug , Daniel Garrido

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is a phenomenon featuring in various quantum gravity models whereby Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, potentially impacting the behaviour of particles and their interactions. Here we investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista

In this work, we use Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) introduced as a generic modification to particle dispersion relations to study some consequences of single photon emission, known as vacuum Cherenkov radiation, and photon decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 H. Martínez-Huerta , A. Pérez-Lorenzana

The delay in the arrival times between high and low energy photons from cosmic sources can be used to test the violation of the Lorentz invariance (LIV), predicted by some quantum gravity theories, and to constrain its characteristic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 M. G. Bernardini , G. Ghirlanda , S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , J. -L. Atteia , S. Covino , G. Ghisellini , A. Melandri , F. Piron , R. Salvaterra , G. Tagliaferri

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most potent probes of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV), offering direct constraints on the quantum gravity energy scale ($E_{\rm QG}$) based on observations of energy-dependent time lags. Individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Shen-Shi Du , Yi Gong , Jun-Jie Wei , Zi-Ke Liu , Zhi-Qiang You , Yan-Zhi Meng , Xing-Jiang Zhu

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) has long been recognized as an observable low-energy signature of quantum gravity. In spite of a great effort to detect LIV effects, so far only lower bounds have been derived. The high energy photons from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

Lorentz invariance plays a fundamental role in modern physics. However, tiny violations of the Lorentz invariance may arise in some candidate quantum gravity theories. Prominent signatures of the gravitational Lorentz invariance violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-12 Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao , Chang Liu

It has been long conjectured that a signature of Quantum Gravity will be Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) that could be observed at energies much lower than the Planck scale. One possible signature of LIV is an energy-dependent speed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 Tsvi Piran , Dmitry D. Ofengeim

Lorentz invariance is a cornerstone of modern physics, yet its possible violation remains both theoretically intriguing and experimentally significant. In this work, using quantum electrodynamics as an example, we explore how Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Zurab Kepuladze

Motivated by different approaches to quantum gravity, one could consider that Lorentz invariance is not an exact symmetry of nature at all energy scales. Following this spirit, modified dispersion relations have been used to encapsulate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Mikel Artola , José A. R. Cembranos , Prado Martín-Moruno

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) can manifest itself by an energy-dependent vacuum dispersion of light, which leads to arrival-time differences of photons with different energies originating from the same astronomical source. The spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

We present a unified general formalism for ultraviolet Lorentz invariance violation (LV) testing through electromagnetic wave propagation, based on both dispersion and rotation measure data. This allows for a direct comparison of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tina Kahniashvili , Grigol Gogoberidze , Bharat Ratra

In this work, we compute some phenomenological bounds for the electromagnetic and massive gravitational high-derivative extensions supposing that it is possible to have an astrophysical process that generates simultaneously gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-30 E. Passos , M. A. Anacleto , F. A. Brito , O. Holanda , G. B. Souza , C. A. D. Zarro

Searching for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) using astrophysical sources such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial for probing quantum gravity. However, the dependence of LIV constraints on assumed cosmological models has been largely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Jun Tian , Yu Pan , Shuo Cao , Qing-Quan Jiang , Wei-Liang Qian

Since the discovery of the cosmological origin of GRBs there has been growing interest in using these transient events to probe the quantum gravity energy scale in the range 10^16--10^19 GeV, up to the Planck mass scale. This energy scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven E. Boggs , Cornelia B. Wunderer , Kevin Hurley , Wayne Coburn

Modified gravity theories generically predict a violation of Lorentz invariance, which may lead to a modified dispersion relation for propagating modes of gravitational waves. We construct a parametrized dispersion relation that can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-02 Saeed Mirshekari , Nicolas Yunes , Clifford M. Will

The tiny modification of dispersion relation induced by Lorentz violation (LV) is an essential issue in quantum gravity (QG) theories, which can be magnified into significant effects when dealing with astrophysical observations at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Liang Chen , Zheng Xiong , Cong Li , SongZhan Chen , HuiHai He

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) introduced as a generic modification to particle dispersion relations can change the photon energy threshold of pair-production, which modifies the expected gamma-ray flux from astrophysical sources. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-11 Humberto Martínez-Huerta , Rodrigo G. Lang , Vitor de Souza