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In general relativity, relativistic gravity gradiometry involves the measurement of the relativistic tidal matrix, which is theoretically obtained from the projection of the Riemann curvature tensor onto the orthonormal tetrad frame of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Donato Bini , Bahram Mashhoon

We compute the parity violating three point amplitudes with one scalar leg in higher spin gravity and compare results with those of Chern-Simons matter theories. The three-point correlators of the free boson, free fermion, critical vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Ergin Sezgin , Evgeny D. Skvortsov , Yaodong Zhu

We consider theories describing the dynamics of a four-dimensional metric, whose Lagrangian is diffeomorphism invariant and depends at most on second derivatives of the metric. Imposing degeneracy conditions we find a set of Lagrangians…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-15 Marco Crisostomi , Karim Noui , Christos Charmousis , David Langlois

The Chern-Simons-like gravitational action is evaluated explicitly in four dimensional space-time by radiative corrections at one-loop level. The calculation is performed in fermionic sector where the Dirac fermions interact with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Mariz , J. R. Nascimento , E. Passos , R. F. Ribeiro

Einstein's general relativity, as the most successful theory of gravity, is one of the cornerstones of modern physics. However, the experimental tests for gravity in the high energy region are limited. The emerging gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-19 Yi-Fan Wang , Rui Niu , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

In this paper, we explore parity violation in a scalar trispectrum from a dynamical Chern-Simons gravity theory. So far, a graviton-mediated diagram with two vertexes being of general relativity has been studied in this theory by taking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 Giorgio Orlando , Shingo Akama , Chunshan Lin

We investigate the weak-field, post-Newtonian expansion to the solution of the field equations in Chern-Simons gravity with a perfect fluid source. In particular, we study the mapping of this solution to the parameterized post-Newtonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

Einstein's equivalence principle suggests a deep connection between matter and spacetime, prompting the question: if matter violates parity, must gravity? This letter explores the detection of parity violation in gravity using gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 Indranil Chakraborty , Susmita Jana , S. Shankaranarayanan

The chiral scalar-tensor theory is an extension of the Chern-Simons modified gravity by introducing couplings between the first and second derivatives of the scalar field and parity-violating spacetime curvatures. A key feature of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Ze-Kai Yu , Lei Liu , Tao Zhu

General relativity is extended by promoting the three-dimensional gravitational Chern-Simons term to four dimensions. This entails choosing an embedding coordinate v_\mu -- an external quantity, which we fix to be a non-vanishing constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 R. Jackiw , S. -Y. Pi

In this paper we consider gravitational parity anomaly in three and four dimensions. We start with a re-computation of this anomaly on a 3D manifold without boundaries and with a critical comparison of our results to the previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-22 Maxim Kurkov , Dmitri Vassilevich

It is known that the four-dimensional effective field theory arising from heterotic string theory is general relativity with both a Chern-Simons and Gauss-Bonnet term. We study the propagation of gravitational waves in this combination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-09 Tatsuya Daniel , Leah Jenks

We study Chern-Simons (CS) gravity in the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) framework through a weak-field solution of the modified field equations. We find that CS gravity possesses the same PPN parameters as general relativity, except…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

In this paper, we study the effects of parity violation on non-gaussianities of primordial gravitational waves in the framework of Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory of gravity, in which high-order spatial derivative operators, including the ones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-29 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Yongqing Huang , Anzhong Wang , Qiang Wu

Gravitational-wave (GW) data can be used to test general relativity in the highly nonlinear and strong field regime. Modified gravity theories such as Einstein-dilation-Gauss-Bonnet and dynamical Chern-Simons can be tested with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Hai-Tian Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Peng-Cheng Li , Ming-Zhe Han , Yi-Zhong Fan

Direct detections of gravitational waves offer a unique opportunity to test gravity in the highly dynamical and strong field regime. Current tests are typically performed assuming signals from quasicircular binaries. However, the complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Soumen Roy , Justin Janquart

One of the popular modifications to the theory of general relativity is non-dynamical Chern-Simons (CS) gravity, in which the metric is coupled to an externally prescribed scalar field. Setting accurate constraints to the parameters of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-25 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

In this PhD thesis, we investigate a wide class of three-dimensional massive gravity models and show how most of them (if not all) can be brought in a first-order, Chern-Simons-like, formulation. This allows for a general analysis of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-26 Wout Merbis

We study the parity-breaking higher-curvature gravity theory of Chern-Simons (CS), using the Palatini formulation in which the metric and connection are taken to be independent fields. We first show that Palatini CS gravity leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Felipe Sulantay , Macarena Lagos , Máximo Bañados

Among the effects predicted by the General Theory of Relativity for the orbital motion of a test particle, the post-Newtonian gravitomagnetic Lense-Thirring effect is very interesting and, up to now, there is not yet an undisputable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-19 Lorenzo Iorio