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Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity cannot be strongly constrained with current experiments because it reduces to General Relativity in the weak-field limit. This theory, however, introduces modifications in the non-linear, dynamical regime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-03 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

Dynamical Chern-Simons (DCS) theory is an extension of General Relativity in which the gravitational field is coupled to a scalar field through a parity violating term. We study perturbations of anti-de Sitter black holes and branes in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-20 Terence Delsate , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

Spinning black holes in dynamical Einstein-Chern-Simons gravity are constructed by directly solving the field equations, without resorting to any perturbative expansion. This model is obtained by adding to the Einstein-Hilbert action a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Terence Delsate , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

One of the most crucial areas of gravity research, after the direct observation of gravitational waves, is the possible modification of General Relativity at ultraviolet and infrared scales. In particular, the possibility of parity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 G. G. L. Nashed , S. Capozziello

We reformulate the Chern-Simons modified gravity in the metric-affine formalism, by enlarging the Pontryagin density with homothetic curvature terms which restore projective invariance without spoiling topologicity. The latter is then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Flavio Bombacigno

We perform a linear stability analysis of dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity in the geometric optics approximation and find that it is linearly stable on the backgrounds considered. Our analysis also reveals that gravitational waves in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-09 David Garfinkle , Frans Pretorius , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational waves from spin-precessing binaries exhibit amplitude oscillations that provide an invaluable method to extract the spins of the inspiraling compact objects. The spin-spin and spin-orbit interactions that cause this effect are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Nicholas Loutrel , Takahiro Tanaka , Nicolas Yunes

Four-dimensional homogeneous static and rotating black strings in dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity, with and without torsion, are presented. Each solution is supported by a scalar field that depends linearly on the coordinate that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 Adolfo Cisterna , Cristóbal Corral , Simón del Pino

We perform a fully relativistic analysis of odd-type linear perturbations around a static and spherically symmetric solution in the most general scalar-tensor theory with second-order field equations in four-dimensional spacetime. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama

We study massive scalar field perturbation on Kerr black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity by performing a $(2+1)$-dimensional simulation. Object pictures of the wave dynamics in time domain are obtained. The tachyonic instability is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-28 Shao-Jun Zhang

We study the dynamical Chern-Simons gravity as an effective quantum field theory, and discuss a broad range of its parameter space where the theory is valid. Within that validity range, we show that slowly rotating black holes acquire novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Stephon Alexander , Gregory Gabadadze , Leah Jenks , Nicolás Yunes

We review some relevant results in the context of higher spin black holes in three-dimensional spacetimes, focusing on their asymptotic behaviour and thermodynamic properties. For simplicity, we mainly discuss the case of gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-14 Alfredo Perez , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

Chern-Simons modified gravity is an effective extension of general relativity that captures leading-order, gravitational parity violation. Such an effective theory is motivated by anomaly cancelation in particle physics and string theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

The detection of gravitational waves resulting by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration has inaugurated a new era in gravitational physics, providing an opportunity to test general relativity and its modifications in the strong gravity regime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Pratik Wagle , Dongjun Li , Yanbei Chen , Nicolas Yunes

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a parity-violating modification of general relativity, is regarded as a low-energy effective theory arising from string theory. Gravitational waves provide a powerful probe for testing its predictions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinyi Che , Xiangyu Lyu , Changfu Shi

The gravitational memory effects of Chern-Simons modified gravity are considered in the asymptotically flat spacetime. If the Chern-Simons scalar does not directly couple with the ordinary matter fields, there are also displacement, spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-10 Shaoqi Hou , Tao Zhu , Zong-Hong Zhu

In the framework of the dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, we study the scalar field perturbations of the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-Melvin spacetime, which describes a charged black hole permeated by a uniform magnetic field. In the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Shao-Jun Zhang , Bin Wang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Anzhong Wang

Black hole superradiance provides a window into the dynamics of light scalar fields and their interactions close to a rotating black hole. Due to the rotation of the black hole, the amplitude of the scalar field becomes magnified, leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Stephon Alexander , Gregory Gabadadze , Leah Jenks , Nicolás Yunes

We study the effects of introducing purely gravitational Chern-Simons Lagrangian terms in ordinary Einstein gravity on stationary rotating black hole solutions and on the associated thermodynamical properties, in a generic number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Loriano Bonora , Maro Cvitan , Predrag Dominis Prester , Silvio Pallua , Ivica Smolić

We explore perturbations about a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background in Chern-Simons gravity. At large momenta one of the two circularly polarized tensor modes becomes ghostlike. We argue that nevertheless the theory does not exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Sergei Dyda , Eanna E. Flanagan , Marc Kamionkowski