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The standard model extension (SME) is an effective field theory framework that can be used to study the possible violations of Lorentz symmetry in the gravitational interaction. In the SME's gauge invariant linearized gravity sector, the…

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The effects of local Lorentz violation on dispersion and birefringence of gravitational waves are investigated. The covariant dispersion relation for gravitational waves involving gauge-invariant Lorentz-violating operators of arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

Violation of Lorentz symmetry can result in two distinct effects in the propagation of the gravitational waves (GWs). One is a modified dispersion relation and another is a frequency-dependent damping of GWs. While the former has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Bo-Yang Zhang , Tao Zhu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Certain alternative theories of gravity predict that gravitational waves will disperse as they travel from the source to the observer. The recent binary black hole observations by Advanced-LIGO have set limits on a modified dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-05 Anuradha Samajdar , K. G. Arun

We generalise Phinney's 'practical theorem' to account for modified graviton dispersion relations motivated by certain cosmological scenarios. Focusing on specific examples, we show how such modifications can induce characteristic localised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Bill Atkins , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato

In modified gravity theories, the gravitational waves propagation are presented in nonstandard ways. We consider a friction term different from GR and constrain the modified gravitational waves propagation from observations. The modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-12 Jun Li

In general relativity, there is no dispersion in gravitational waves, while some modified gravity theories predict dispersion phenomena in the propagation of gravitational waves. In this paper, we demonstrate that this dispersion will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-17 Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han , Shuo Xin , Chen Zhang

Lorentz violation modifies the dispersion relation of gravitational waves (GWs), and induces birefringence and anisotropy in propagation. Our study shows that Lorentz violation can also activate multiple polarizations of GWs. We use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-20 Dicong Liang , Rui Xu , Xuchen Lu , Lijing Shao

Recent gravitational wave observations have allowed stringent new constraints on modifications to General Relativity (GR) in the extreme gravity regime. Although these observations were consistent with compact binaries with no orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-12 Sizheng Ma , Nicolas Yunes

The notion that gravitation might lead to a breakdown of standard space-time structure at small distances, and that this might affect the propagation of ordinary particles has led to a program to search for violations of Lorentz invariance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 John Collins , Alejandro Perez , Daniel Sudarsky

The gravitational constant variation means the breakdown of the strong equivalence principle. As the cornerstone of general relativity, the validity of general relativity can be examined by studying the gravitational constant variation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Bing Sun , Jiachen An , Zhoujian Cao

In this paper, we analyze parity-violating effects in the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). For this purpose, we adopt a newly proposed parametrized post-Einstenian (PPE) formalism, which encodes modified gravity corrections to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Matteo Califano , Rocco D'Agostino , Daniele Vernieri

Modified gravitational wave propagation is a smoking gun of modifications of gravity at cosmological scales, and can be the most promising observable for testing such theories. The observation of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Francesco Iacovelli , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella

Using the recent observation of gravitational waves (GW) produced by a black-hole merger, we place a lower bound on the energy above which a multifractal spacetime would display an anomalous geometry and, in particular, violations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-09 Gianluca Calcagni

Using a deformed dispersion relation for gravitational waves, Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have been able to place constraints on violations of local Lorentz invariance as well as the mass of the graviton. We summarise the method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-11 Anuradha Samajdar

Several approaches to quantum gravity suggest that Lorentz invariance will be broken at high energy. This can lead to modified dispersion relations for wave propagation, which can be concretely realized in effective field theories where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-15 Jarod George Kelly , Sanjeev S. Seahra

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

We solve the wave equation for gravitational waves emitted by compact objects systems using the Multipolar Post-Minkowskian (MPM) method, and in the presence of Lorentz invariance violating terms. We select a Lorentz-violating extension of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Samy Aoulad Lafkih , Marie-Christine Angonin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Nils A. Nilsson

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Lorentz and diffeomorphism violations are studied in linearized gravity using effective field theory. A classification of all gauge-invariant and gauge-violating terms is given. The exact covariant dispersion relation for gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes