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The direct observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in the near future, and the corresponding determination of the number of independent polarizations, is a powerful tool to test general relativity and alternative theories of gravity. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Marcio E. S. Alves , Oswaldo D. Miranda , Jose C. N. de Araujo

Gravitational waves (GWs) are useful to test gravitational theories and to probe the physics in the early universe. In this paper, we investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in symmetric teleparallel gravity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 Fengge Zhang , Jia-Xi Feng , Xian Gao

In this paper, the polarization modes of gravitational waves in Horndeski gravity are studied under the Palatini formalism. After obtaining the linearized equation of perturbations in Minkowski background, we find that the polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-24 Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Xiao Liu

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

Accelerated expansion of the Universe prompted searches of modified gravity theory beyond general relativity, instead of adding a mysterious dark energy component with exotic physical properties. One such alternative gravity approach is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Sreekanth Harikumar , Laur Järv , Margus Saal , Aneta Wojnar , Marek Biesiada

We study a scattering problem of gravitational waves (GWs) by an axion domain wall in Chern-Simons (CS) gravity. We find that circular polarization of GWs is produced after passing through the domain wall. It turns out that the circular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda , Akira Taniguchi

We investigate the propagation of the gravitational waves in a cosmological background. Based on the framework of spatially covariant gravity, we derive the general quadratic action for the gravitational waves. The spatial derivatives of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Xian Gao , Xun-Yang Hong

We consider gravitational waves from the point of view of both their production and their propagation in doubly coupled bigravity in the metric formalism. In bigravity, the two gravitons are coupled by a non-diagonal mass matrix and show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Johannes Noller

High-order spatial derivatives are of crucial importance for constructing the low energy effective action of a Lorentz or parity violating theory of quantum gravity. One example is the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity, in one has to consider at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Cheng Gong , Tao Zhu , Rui Niu , Qiang Wu , Jing-Lei Cui , Xin Zhang , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

Primordial scalar perturbations that reenter the horizon after inflation may induce a second-order Gravitational Wave spectrum with information about the primordial Universe on scales inaccessible to Cosmic Microwave Background experiments.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Samuel Sánchez López , José Jaime Terente Díaz

In the context of the metric-affine Chern-Simons gravity endowed with projective invariance, we derive analytical solutions for torsion and nonmetricity in the homogeneous and isotropic cosmological case, described by a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-24 S. Boudet , F. Bombacigno , F. Moretti , G. J. Olmo

Dynamical Chern-Simons (DCS) gravity, a typical parity-violating gravitational theory, modifies both the generation and propagation of gravitational waves from general relativity (GR). In this work, we derive the gravitational waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Zhao Li , Jin Qiao , Tan Liu , Rui Niu , Shaoqi Hou , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

In this work we analyze the propagation properties of gravitational waves in the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity theory. We introduce the scalar-tensor representation of the theory to make explicit the scalar degrees of freedom of the theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Cláudio Gomes , João Luís Rosa , Miguel A. S. Pinto

There has been increasing interest in investigating the possible parity violating features in the gravity theory and on the cosmological scales. In this work, we consider a class of scalar-nonmetricity theory, of which the Lagrangian is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Zheng Chen , Yang Yu , Xian Gao

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 report on a new mechanism that leads to the generation of primordial chiral gravitational waves, and hence, the violation of the parity symmetry in the Universe. We show that nonperturbative production of fermions with a definite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-10 Mohamed M. Anber , Eray Sabancilar

Chiral gravity and cosmological birefringence both provide physical mechanisms to produce parity-violating TB and EB correlations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature/polarization. Here, we study how well these two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Vera Gluscevic , Marc Kamionkowski

Recently, the cross-correlation between $E$- and $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is well explained by cosmic birefringence with rotation angle $\beta\approx 0.3$ deg, has been found in CMB polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Tomohiro Fujita , Yuto Minami , Maresuke Shiraishi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We show that a parity-breaking uniform (averaged over all directions on the sky) circular polarization of amplitude $V_{00} \simeq 2.6 \times 10^{-17}\, \Delta \chi (r/0.06)$ can be induced by chiral gravitational-wave (GW) background with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski

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