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In the framework of general relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) travel at the speed of light across all frequencies. However, massive gravity and weak equivalence principle (WEP) violation may lead to frequency-dependent variations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Xian-Liang Wang , Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han

We study the scattering of gravitational waves by axion domain walls in teleparallel gravity with the Nieh-Yan term. Since a domain wall causes the parity violation, the transmitted gravitational waves also exhibit the parity violation. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Jiro Soda , Maki Takeuchi

We discuss how tensor polarizations of gravitational waves can suffer Landau damping in the presence of velocity birefringence, when parity symmetry is explicitly broken. In particular, we analyze the role of the Nieh-Yan and Chern-Simons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Flavio Bombacigno , Fabio Moretti , Simon Boudet , Gonzalo J. Olmo

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) opened a new chapter in the modern cosmology to probe possible deviations from the general relativity (GR) theory. In the present work, we investigate for the first time the modified GW form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-16 Rafael C. Nunes , Marcio E. S. Alves , Jose C. N. de Araujo

Gravitational parity violation arises in a variety of theories beyond general relativity. Gravitational waves in such theories have their propagation altered, leading to birefringence effects in both the amplitude and speed of the wave. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-19 Leah Jenks , Lyla Choi , Macarena Lagos , Nicolás Yunes

We consider gravitational waves (GWs) in generic parity-violating gravity including recently proposed ghost-free theories with parity violation as well as Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity, and study the implications of observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Atsushi Nishizawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi

The direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has opened a new window with which to measure cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant $H_0$, and also probe general relativity on large scales. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Mastrogiovanni , D. Steer , M. Barsuglia

The recently proposed Nieh-Yan modified teleparallel gravity is a parity-violating gravity model that modifies the general relativity equivalent teleparallel gravity by a Nieh-Yan term. This model is healthy and simple in form. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Haomin Rao

We study the propagation of cosmological gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds from the early radiation era until the present day in modified theories of gravity. Comparing to general relativity (GR), we study the effects that modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Yutong He , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg

The question of whether the parity violation occurs in gravitational interaction has recently attracted much attention. In this paper, we investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in symmetric teleparallel gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Fengge Zhang

Parity violation in the gravitational interaction has an important impact on fundamental observables and the evolution of the universe. We here investigate for the first time our ability to probe the parity violating nature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Nicholas Loutrel , Takahiro Tanaka , Nicolas Yunes

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 growing catalog of gravitational wave (GW) detections by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration enables increasingly stringent tests of general relativity, particularly regarding possible parity and Lorentz violations. While most current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Wei-Hua Guo , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Tao Zhu

The spatial covariant gravities provide a natural way to including odd-order spatial derivative terms into the gravitational action, which breaks the parity symmetry at gravitational sector. A lot of parity-violating scalar-tensor theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences provide unique opportunities to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. In particular, the merger phase, during which two compact objects finally coalesce, corresponds to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Daiki Watarai , Atsushi Nishizawa , Hiroki Takeda , Hayato Imafuku , Kipp Cannon

The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently suggested the presence of a gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. In this paper, we explore potential inflationary interpretation of this signal within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Chengjie Fu , Jing Liu , Xing-Yu Yang , Wang-Wei Yu , Yawen Zhang

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) from merging binary black holes and neutron stars mark the beginning of a new era in gravitational physics, and it brings forth new opportunities to test theories of gravity. To this end, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Atsushi Nishizawa

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

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

The gravitational wave observations GW150914 and GW151226 by Advanced LIGO provide the first opportunity to learn about physics in the extreme gravity environment of coalescing binary black holes. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Nicolas Yunes , Kent Yagi , Frans Pretorius