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Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity (dCS) is a four-dimensional parity-violating extension of general relativity. Current models predict the effect of this extension to be negligible due to large decay constants $f$ close to the scale of grand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Stephon Alexander , Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity has an interesting feature that the parity violating term exists, and the coupling is determined by a dynamical scalar field. When the spacetime has spherical symmetry, the parity violating term vanishes, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Masashi Kimura

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

The Chern-Simons gravitational term is typically coupled to the inflaton field during inflation. In this work, we explore an alternative scenario where the Chern-Simons term is minimally coupled to a massive spectator field, $\sigma$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Giorgio Orlando

The four-point correlation function of primordial scalar perturbations has parity-even and parity-odd contributions and the parity-odd signal in cosmological observations is opening a novel window to look for new physics in the inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Xuce Niu , Moinul Hossain Rahat , Karthik Srinivasan , Wei Xue

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

We calculate the scalar-induced gravitational wave energy density in the theory of Ghost Inflation, assuming scale invariance and taking into account both the power spectrum- and trispectrum-induced contributions. For the latter we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-06 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Yizhou Lu , Zhiming Shuai

Some recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and the large-scale structure of the Universe imply cosmic parity violation. Among possible parity-violating sources, helical primordial magnetic fields (PMFs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Kaito Yura , Shohei Saga , Maresuke Shiraishi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

In this work we investigate the inflationary era in the presence of a canonical scalar field and Chern-Simons parity violating corrections. It was also assumed that a non minimal coupling between curvature and the scalar field is present.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 F. P. Fronimos , S. A. Venikoudis

Dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity is a promising extension of general relativity (GR), arising naturally from the low-energy limit of some string motivated theories. Even though dCS possesses an additional scalar degree of freedom,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Caio F. B. Macedo

We propose a dynamical amplification mechanism for detecting symmetry breaking in black holes through environmentally driven spectral instabilities of quasinormal modes. Focusing on dynamical Chern-Simons gravity as a paradigm for parity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Han-Wen Hu , Chen Lan , Zong-Kuan Guo

Chern-Simons gravity coupled to the scalar sector through a generic coupling function $f(\phi)$ can be tested at the very high energies of the inflationary period. In 1706.04627, we computed the theoretical parity breaking signatures of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-28 Nicola Bartolo , Giorgio Orlando , Maresuke Shiraishi

Several pulsar timing arrays including NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, and CPTA have recently reported the observation of a stochastic background of gravitational wave spectrum in the nano-Hz frequencies. An inflationary interpretation of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-18 Xuce Niu , Moinul Hossain Rahat

Neutron stars are sensitive laboratories for testing general relativity, especially when considering deviations where velocities are relativistic and gravitational fields are strong. One such deviation is described by dynamical,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-28 Nicolas Yunes , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Abraham Loeb

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) gravity with a dynamical scalar field during slow roll inflation. Due to the parity violation in the CS term, the SIGWs are generally polarized, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

Detecting parity violation on cosmological scales would provide a striking clue to new physics. Large-scale structure offers the raw statistical power -- many three-dimensional modes -- to make such tests. However, for scalar observables,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zucheng Gao , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Zvonimir Vlah

We investigate the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectra of the intensity (temperature) and polarization modes induced by the graviton non-Gaussianities, which arise from the parity-conserving and parity-violating Weyl cubic terms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-14 Maresuke Shiraishi , Daisuke Nitta , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Parity-violating interactions are ubiquitous phenomena in particle physics. If they are significant during cosmic inflation, they can leave imprints on primordial perturbations and be observed in correlation functions of galaxy surveys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Yunjia Bao , Lian-Tao Wang , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu , Yi-Ming Zhong

Parity-violating (PV) gravity has recently attracted interest in several aspects. One of them is the axion-graviton coupling to test the axion-dark matter model. Moreover, by extending Chern-Simons (CS) gravity to include derivatives of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 Kei Yamada , Takahiro Tanaka

We study parity violation in graviton non-gaussianity generated during inflation. We develop a useful formalism to calculate graviton non-gaussianity. Using this formalism, we explicitly calculate the parity violating part of the bispectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Jiro Soda , Hideo Kodama , Masato Nozawa