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We discuss a fine-tuning of rather generic three dimensional higher-curvature gravity actions that leads to gauge symmetry enhancement at the linearized level via partial masslessness. Requiring this gauge symmetry to be present also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-27 Hamid Afshar , Branislav Cvetković , Sabine Ertl , Daniel Grumiller , Niklas Johansson

We show that three-dimensional information is critical to discerning the effects of parity violation in the primordial gravity-wave background. If present, helical gravity waves induce parity-violating correlations in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Ue-Li Pen , Neil Turok

We investigate the parity-violating effects in primordial gravitational waves (GWs) due to null energy condition (NEC) violation in two very early universe scenarios: bounce-inflation and intermediate NEC violation during inflation. In both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Zi-Wei Jiang , Yong Cai , Fei Wang , Yun-Song Piao

Modified gravity theories generically predict a violation of Lorentz invariance, which may lead to a modified dispersion relation for propagating modes of gravitational waves. We construct a parametrized dispersion relation that can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-02 Saeed Mirshekari , Nicolas Yunes , Clifford M. Will

We study the inflationary implications of a novel parity-violating gravity model, which modifies the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity by introducing the Nieh-Yan term coupled to an axion-like field. The parity-violating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-14 Rong-Gen Cai , Chengjie Fu , Wang-Wei Yu

Pseudoscalar or pseudovector cosmic fields, that serve as a source of parity ($\mathcal{P}$) violation, are invoked in different models for cold dark matter or in the standard model extension that allows for Lorentz invariance violation. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Konstantin Gaul , Mikhail G. Kozlov , Timur A. Isaev , Robert Berger

We present a computational investigation of the parity-violating (PV) contributions to the vibrational transitions and nuclear magnetic resonance shieldings of helical osmocene. A number of promising transitions within the spectral window…

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

We calculate the gravitational waveform radiated from spinning black holes (BHs) binary in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity. The equation of motion (EOM) of the spinining binary BHs is derived based on the modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhao Li , Jin Qiao , Tan Liu , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

In a modified gravity theory, the propagation equation of gravitational waves will be presented in a non-standard way. Therefore this tenor mode perturbation of time-space, as a complement to the scalar mode perturbation, provides a unique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lixin Xu

In this lecture I address the issue of possible large distance modification of gravity and its observational consequences. Although, for the illustrative purposes we focus on a particular simple generally-covariant example, our conclusions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gia Dvali

Solar system observations have traditionally allowed for very stringent tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity. We here revisit the possibility of using these observations to constrain gravitational parity violation as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Yuya Nakamura , Daiki Kikuchi , Kei Yamada , Hideki Asada , Nicolas Yunes

In this paper, we investigate the inflationary phenomenology of parity-violating (PV) extensions of symmetric teleparallel gravity by applying this PV gravity theory to axion inflation. The presence of PV terms induces velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Rongrong Zhai , Chengjie Fu , Xiangyun Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity is an interesting extension of General Relativity, which finds its way in many different contexts, including string theory, cosmological settings and loop quantum gravity. In this theory, the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri

A discovery of gravitational waves from binary black holes raises a possibility that measurements of them can provide strict tests of CPT invariance in gravitational waves. When CPT violation exists, if any, gravitational waves with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-05 Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

Testing deviation of GR is one of the main goals of the proposed {\emph{Laser Interferometer Space Antenna}}, a space-based gravitational-wave observatory. For the first time, we consistently compute the generation of gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicolas Yunes , C. F. Sopuerta

We show that the parametric resonance of gravitational waves occurs due to the axion coherent oscillation and the circular polarization of gravitational waves is induced by the Chern-Simons coupling. However, we have never observed these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Daiske Yoshida , Jiro Soda

Recently, possible hints of parity violation have been observed in the connected galaxy four-point correlation function. Although the true origin of the signal from the analysis has been debated, should they have a physical origin, they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Tommaso Moretti , Nicola Bartolo , Alessandro Greco

We develop a unified framework for testing gravity beyond General Relativity (GR) with continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These long-lived, nearly monochromatic nanohertz signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Qinyuan Zheng , Bjorn Larsen , Ellis Eisenberg , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

The propagation of gravitational waves can reveal fundamental features of the structure of spacetime. For instance, differences in the propagation of gravitational-wave polarizations would be a smoking gun for parity violations in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Thomas C. K. Ng , Maximiliano Isi , Kaze W. K. Wong , Will M. Farr