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The search for a quantum theory of gravity has been one of the main aims of theoretical physics for many years by now. However the efforts in this direction have been often hampered by the lack of experimental/observational tests able to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Liberati

Broken spacetime symmetries might emerge from a fundamental physical theory. The effective low-energy theory might be expected to exhibit violations of supersymmetry and Lorentz invariance. Some illustrative models which combine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 M. S. Berger

Some solutions to the anomalies of ultra high energy cosmic-ray(UHECR) and TeV $\gamma$-rays require disturbed non-quadratic dispersion relations, which suggest the Lorentz violation. Also, some new theories such as quantum gravity, string…

General Physics · Physics 2007-08-14 Ying-Qiu Gu

This talk at the CPT'25 meeting presents an overview of some recent results in Lorentz and CPT violation. Topics covered include the geometry of Finsler spaces associated with Lorentz violation, the resolution of the concordance problem in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Alan Kostelecky

Minuscule violations of CPT and Lorentz invariance might arise in an extension of the standard model as suppressed effects from a more fundamental theory. In this contribution to the CarruthersFest, I present and answer some questions about…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan Kostelecky

Lorentz invariance is a well known fundamental concept of special relativity but its violation is predicted by some variations of quantum gravity, string theory, and some alternatives to general relativity. We study neutrino oscillation at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 S. A. Alavi , M. Dehghani Madise

In the framework of special relativity, all particles are point-like or string-like. This nature of particles has caused the divergence difficulties in quantum field, string and superstring theories. In the framework of special relativity,…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

In this work, we investigate a theory of linear Weyl gravity coupled to a scalar field and study the scenario in which Lorentz symmetry is broken by a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value of the Weyl field in the flat space limit after…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-11 Feng Wu

We study possible Lorentz violations by means of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) with special focus on the Large Array Telescope (LAT) of GLAST. We simulate bursts with gtobssim and introduce a Lorentz violating term in the arrival times of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 Raphael Lamon

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

Binary pulsars are excellent laboratories to test the building blocks of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. One of these is Lorentz symmetry which states that physical phenomena appear the same for all inertially moving observers. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-01 Kent Yagi , Diego Blas , Nicolas Yunes , Enrico Barausse

The one-loop divergences for the scalar field theory with Lorentz and/or CPT breaking terms are obtained in curved space-time. We analyze two separate cases: minimal coupled scalar field with gravity and nonminimal one. For the minimal case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Tibério de Paula Netto

The constancy of light speed is a basic assumption in Einstein's special relativity, and consequently the Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of space-time in modern physics. However, it is speculated that the speed of light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-23 Shu Zhang , Bo-Qiang Ma

Some Quantum Gravity (QG) theories allow for a violation of Lorentz invariance (LIV), manifesting as a dependence of the velocity of light in vacuum on its energy. If such a dependence exists, then photons of different energies emitted…

While general relativity possesses local Lorentz invariance, both canonical quantum gravity and string theory suggest that Lorentz invariance may be broken at high energies. Broken Lorentz invariance has also been postulated as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 David Mattingly , Ted Jacobson

One possible ramification of unified theories of nature such as string theory that may underlie the conventional standard model is the possible spontaneous breakdown of Lorentz and CPT symmetry. In this talk, the formalism for inclusion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Don Colladay

Apparent violations of CPT and Lorentz symmetry might arise in nature as a result of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a theory beyond the standard model. This talk summarizes a few relevant theoretical and experimental issues, with some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan Kostelecky

The ongoing experimental efforts in the high energy and high precision communities keep providing evidence for CPT, a fundamental symmetry holding in any local Lorentz invariant theory. We suggest possible interconnections between different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-20 Shmuel Nussinov

Recent claims point out that possible violations of Lorentz symmetry appearing in some semiclassical models of extended matter dynamics motivated by loop quantum gravity can be removed by a different choice of canonically conjugated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jorge Alfaro , Marat Reyes , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl , L. F. Urrutia

We rediscuss the recent controversy on a possible Chern-Simons like term generated through radiative corrections in QED with a CPT violating term. We emphasize the fact that any absence of an {\sl a priori} divergence should be explained by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Guy Bonneau