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In the attempts toward a quantum gravity theory, general relativity faces a serious difficulty since it is non-renormalizable theory. Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity offers a framework to circumvent this difficulty, by sacrificing the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-21 J. B. Fonseca-Neto , A. Yu. Petrov , M. J. Reboucas

In this paper it is given a brief review of the current limits on the magnitude of CPT and Lorentz Invariance violations, currently predicted in connection with quantum gravity and string/M-theory, that can be derived from astrophysical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-08 G. Auriemma

Deformed relativistic kinematics, expected to emerge in a flat-spacetime limit of quantum gravity, predicts violation of discrete symmetries at energy scale in the vicinity of the Planck mass. Momentum-dependent deformations of the C, P and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-04 Wojciech Wislicki

In the context of Horava gravity, the most promising known scenarios to recover Lorentz invariance at low energy are the possibilities that (1) the renormalization group flow of the system leads to emergent infrared Lorentz invariance, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Andrew Coates , Charles Melby-Thompson , Shinji Mukohyama

We show that the IR action of the healthy non-projectable Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity and its small modification exhibit asymptotically Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating solutions, respectively. The model may also have an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Mohsen Alishahiha , Hossein Yavartanoo

Much research has been done in the latter years on the subject of Lorentz violation induced by Quantum Gravity effects. On the theoretical side it has been shown that both Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory predict that Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Vucetich

Lorentz violation (LV) is predicted by some quantum gravity theories, where photon dispersion relation is modified, and the speed of light becomes energy-dependent. Consequently, it results in a tiny time delay between high energy photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Lijing Shao , Zhi Xiao , Bo-Qiang Ma

The Horava-Lifshitz gravity, having broken the symmetry of space and time, includes three objects: the spatial metric $g_{ij}$, the lapse variable $N$, and the shift variable $N_{i}$. Each of these objects have their own scaling dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 Qasem Exirifard

In recent years, the breakdown of spacetime symmetries has been identified as a promising research field in the context of Planck-scale phenomenology. For example, various theoretical approaches to the quantum-gravity problem are known to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-08 Ralf Lehnert

We show that estimates of the Lorentz symmetry violation extracted from ultra-high energy cosmic rays beyond the GZK cut-off set bounds on the parameters of a Lorentz-violating extension of the Standard Model. Moreover, we argue that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Bertolami

In the context of conventional quantum field theory, we present a general Lorentz-violating extension of the minimal SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) standard model including CPT-even and CPT-odd terms. It can be viewed as the low-energy limit of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Don Colladay , Alan Kostelecky

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

Modifications inspired by quantum gravity in the kinematics of special relativity can manifest in various ways, including anomalies in the time of flight of massless particles and the emergence of decay channels for otherwise stable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortés , M. A. Reyes

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

Possible violations of Lorentz invariance (LIV) have been investigated for a long time using the observed spectral lags of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, these generally have relied on using a single photon in the highest energy range.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Jun-Jie Wei , Bin-Bin Zhang , Lang Shao , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros

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

Putting constraints on a possible Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) from astrophysical sources such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is essential for finding evidences of new theories of quantum gravity (QG) that predict an energy-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-02 Denitsa Staicova

Horava-Lifshitz gravity models contain higher order operators suppressed by a characteristic scale, which is required to be parametrically smaller than the Planck scale. We show that recomputed synchrotron radiation constraints from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Stefano Liberati , Luca Maccione , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Recent work has demonstrated that discrete quantum walks, when extended to quantum cellular automata (QCA), can, in the continuum limit, reproduce relativistic wave equations and quantum field theories (QFTs), including free quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Leonard Mlodinow , Todd A. Brun

Due to quantum gravity fluctuations at the Planck scale, the space-time manifold is no longer continuous, but discretized. As a result the Lorentz symmetry is broken at very high energies. In this article, we study the neutrino oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-01 Iman Motie , She-Sheng Xue