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Considering high-energy modifications of Einstein gravity during inflation is an interesting issue. We can constrain the strength of the new gravitational terms through observations of inflationary imprints in the actual universe. In this…

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We report the results of testing gravitational-wave birefringence using the largest population of gravitational-wave events currently available. Gravitational-wave birefringence, which can arise from the effective field theory extension of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 Yi-Fan Wang , Stephanie M. Brown , Lijing Shao , Wen Zhao

In this work, we analyze a gravity model with higher derivatives including a CPT-even Lorentz-violating term. In principle, the model could be a low-energy limit of a Lorentz-invariant theory presenting the violation of Lorentz symmetry as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-22 C. Hernaski , H. Belich

The impact of earth's gravity on neutral mesons dynamics is analyzed. The main effect of a Newtonian potential is to couple the strangeness and bottomness oscillations with the quark zitterbewegung oscillations. This coupling is responsible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-13 Jean-Marcel Rax

We investigate physical implications of a gravitational analog of axion electrodynamics with a parity-violating gravitoelectromagnetic theta term. This is related to the Nieh-Yan topological invariant in gravity with torsion, in contrast to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis , Georgios Karagiannis , George Manolakos , Peter Schupp

Gravitational wave (GW) data can be used to test the parity symmetry of gravity by investigating the difference between left-hand and right-hand circular polarization modes. In this article, we develop a method to decompose the circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-21 Wen Zhao , Tan Liu , Linqing Wen , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Qian Hu , Cong Zhou

The parity violating gravity models based on the symmetric teleparallel gravity have been considered in the literature, but their applications in cosmology and especially the modifications to cosmological perturbations have not been fully…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Mingzhe Li , Dehao Zhao

Gravitational wave observations of compact binaries allow us to test general relativity (and modifications thereof) in the strong and highly-dynamical field regime of gravity. Here we confront two extensions to general relativity, dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Scott E. Perkins , Remya Nair , Hector O. Silva , Nicolas Yunes

To study the effect of parity-violation on the rate of complexity growth, by using "Complexity=Action" conjecture, we find the complexity growth rates in different solutions of the chiral theory of Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Mahdis Ghodrati

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations of coalescing compact binaries will be unique probes of strong-field, dynamical aspects of relativistic gravity. We present a short review of various schemes proposed in the literature to test General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 K G Arun , Archana Pai

We study the effects of oscillating, ultralight scalar and pseudoscalar fields on the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). We consider two potential couplings of the (pseudo)scalars to gravity; a parity-even Gauss-Bonnet coupling, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Leah Jenks , Marc Kamionkowski

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

We consider the possibility that gravity breaks parity, with left and right handed gravitons coupling to matter with a different Newton's constant and show that this would affect their zero-point vacuum fluctuations during inflation. Should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo R. Contaldi , Joao Magueijo , Lee Smolin

A violation of the null energy condition (NEC) during inflation in a single-field inflation model will naturally enhance the amplitude of the parity violation effect (defined by $\Delta\chi$) of inflationary primordial gravitational waves…

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We investigate the modifications in the neutrino flavor oscillations under the influence of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), in a scenario in which General Relativity is modified by an additional Chern-Simons (CS) term.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-16 Gaetano Lambiase , Leonardo Mastrototaro , Luca Visinelli

We consider the nondynamical Chern-Simons (nCS) modified gravity, which is regarded as a parity-odd theory of massive gravity in four dimensions. We first find polarization modes of gravitational waves for $\theta=x/\mu$ in nCS modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Yun Soo Myung , Taeyoon Moon

We investigate the slow-motion and weak-field approximation of the general ghost-free parity-violating (PV) theory of gravity in the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) framework and derive the perturbative field equations, which are modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Jin Qiao , Tao Zhu , Guoliang Li , Wen Zhao

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity during the radiation dominated era. The SIGWs are circularly polarized, which provide us a tool to test the possible parity violation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Fengge Zhang , Jia-Xi Feng , Xian Gao

Gravitational waves (GWs) distort galaxy shapes through the tidal effect, offering a novel avenue to probe the nature of gravity. In this paper, we investigate how extra GW polarizations beyond those predicted by general relativity imprint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yusuke Mikura , Teppei Okumura , Misao Sasaki

The parity violating model based on teleparallel gravity is a competitive scheme for parity violating gravity, which has been preliminary studied in the literature. To further investigate the parity violating model in teleparallel gravity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-23 Haomin Rao , Dehao Zhao