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The tests of parity symmetry in the gravitational interaction is an attractive issue in the gravitational-wave astronomy. In the general theories of gravity with parity violation, one of the fundamental results is that the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Jin Qiao , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

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

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

Is gravity parity violating? Given the recent observations of gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, we develop a strategy to find an answer with current and future detectors. We identify the key signatures of parity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Stephon H. Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

In this work, we review the effective field theory framework to search for Lorentz and CPT symmetry breaking during the propagation of gravitational waves. The article is written so as to bridge the gap between the theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-26 Kellie O'Neal-Ault , Quentin G. Bailey , Tyann Dumerchat , Leila Haegel , Jay Tasson

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

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

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

Extensions to General Relativity (GR) allow the polarization of gravitational waves (GW) from astrophysical sources to suffer from amplitude and velocity birefringence, which respectively induce changes in the ellipticity and orientation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Macarena Lagos , Leah Jenks , Maximiliano Isi , Kenta Hotokezaka , Brian D. Metzger , Eric Burns , Will M. Farr , Scott Perkins , Kaze W. K. Wong , Nicolas Yunes

Parity violation in gravity, if existed, could have important implications, and it is meaningful to search and test the possible observational effects. Chern-Simons modified gravity serves as a natural model for gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-08 Peng Xu , Zhi Wang , Li-E Qiang

A generalized Brans-Dicke (GBD) theory in the framework of Palatini formalism are proposed in this paper. We derive the field equations by using the variational approach and obtain the linearized equations by using the weak-field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Jianbo Lu , Jiachun Li , Hui Guo , Zhitong Zhuang , Xin Zhao

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

We investigate cosmological vacuum amplification of gravitational waves in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity. We develop a comprehensive framework to compute graviton production induced by the parity violating Pontryagin coupling and study its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Stephon Alexander , Heliudson Bernardo , Yiya Selina Li , Cooper Niu

Cosmic birefringence is the process that rotates the plane of polarization by an amount, $\alpha$, as photons propagate through free space. Such an effect arises in parity-violating extensions to the electromagnetic sector, such as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Dagoberto Contreras , Paula Boubel , Douglas Scott

The examination of parity symmetry in gravitational interactions has drawn increasing attention. Although Einstein's General Relativity is parity-conserved, numerous theories of parity-violating (PV) gravity in different frameworks have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Jin Qiao , Zhao Li , Tao Zhu , Ran Ji , Guoliang Li , Wen Zhao

Spin precession in compact binaries is intricately tuned to the multipole structure of the underlying bodies. For black holes, violations of the no-hair theorems induced by modifications to general relativity correct the precession…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-08 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

Testing parity symmetry constitutes a critical aspect in gravitational physics. As a representative parity-violating theory, dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity has attracted significant attention in recent gravitational wave (GW) studies.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Zhao Li , Wen Zhao

We study tensor perturbations around the most general cosmologically symmetric backgrounds in a class of teleparallel gravity theories known as New General Relativity. These theories comprise a one-parameter class, which is fully consistent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer

We show that dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity imprints a parity-violating signal in primordial scalar perturbations. Specifically, we find that, after dCS amplifies one graviton helicity due to a tachyonic instability, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-10 Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Stephon Alexander , Marc Kamionkowski , Oliver Philcox

In the gravitational sector, we study the CPT violation and birefringence of gravitational waves. In presence of the CPT violation, a relative dephasing is generated between two circular polarization states of gravitational waves. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-13 Sai Wang