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Dynamical Chern-Simons (DCS) modified gravity is an attractive, yet relatively unexplored, candidate to an alternative theory of gravity. The DCS correction couples a dynamical scalar field to the gravitational field. In this framework, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 V. Cardoso , L. Gualtieri

Chern-Simons modified gravity is an effective extension of general relativity that captures leading-order, gravitational parity violation. Such an effective theory is motivated by anomaly cancelation in particle physics and string theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

The power suppression at largest scale in the CMB TT powerspectrum might imply the occurrence of a pre-inflationary bounce. We calculate the circularly polarized gravitational wave, leaded by the gravitational Chern-Simons term which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Yu-Tong Wang , Yun-Song Piao

In this work, we investigate tensor perturbations in a de Sitter background within the framework of Chern-Simons modified gravity. We introduce transverse-traceless perturbations and analyze how the Chern-Simons Cotton tensor induces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Abhishek Rout , Brett Altschul

We study the reconstruction of the cosmic rotation power spectrum produced by parity-violating physics, with an eye to ongoing and near future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments such as BICEP Array, CMBS4, LiteBIRD and Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Toshiya Namikawa

We investigate axion inflation where the gravitational Chern-Simons term is coupled to a periodic function of the inflaton. We find that tensor perturbations with different polarizations are amplified in different ways by the Chern-Simons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Chengjie Fu , Jing Liu , Tao Zhu , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

The recent discovery of gravitational wave events has offered us unique testbeds of gravity in the strong and dynamical field regime. One possible modification to General Relativity is the gravitational parity violation that gives rise to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Kent Yagi , Huan Yang

Given the growing interest in gravitational-wave and cosmological parity-violating effects in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity, it is crucial to investigate whether the scalar-gravitational Pontryagin term in dCS persists when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Stephon Alexander , Heliudson Bernardo , Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski

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

In this paper, we study the effects of parity violation on non-gaussianities of primordial gravitational waves in the framework of Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory of gravity, in which high-order spatial derivative operators, including the ones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-29 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Yongqing Huang , Anzhong Wang , Qiang Wu

We examine the cosmological correlators induced by the simultaneous breaking of parity and of statistical isotropy, e.g., in presence of the coupling ${\cal L} = f(\phi) ( - \frac{1}{4} F^2 + \frac{\gamma}{4} F \tilde{F} )$ between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-28 Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese , Marco Peloso , Maresuke Shiraishi

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration has, for the first time, allowed us to test relativistic gravity in its strong, dynamical and nonlinear regime, thus opening a new arena to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-16 Pratik Wagle , Nicolas Yunes , Hector O. Silva

A hybrid of the critical three dimensional Gross-Neveu and Thirring models deformed by explicit parity breaking operators is studied in the large N expansion and using the renormalization group. The regime of coupling constants where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Gordon W. Semenoff , Riley A. Stewart

We show that three-dimensional information is critical to discerning the effects of parity violation in the primordial gravity-wave background. If present, helical gravity waves induce parity-violating correlations in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Ue-Li Pen , Neil Turok

Parity-odd four-point correlation functions, or trispectra, of cosmic matter density fields provide a unique probe of fundamental symmetries in cosmology. Trispectra of primordial matter density fluctuations produced in the early universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Sha Azyzy , Drew Jamieson , Eiichiro Komatsu , Toshiki Kurita

We investigate black holes and gravitational perturbations when both the scalar Gauss-Bonnet and dynamical Chern-Simons gravity sectors coexist in addition to the Einstein-Hilbert term, and both sectors are coupled to a single canonically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Shin'ichi Hirano , Masashi Kimura , Masahide Yamaguchi

A pseudo-scalar inflaton field can have interesting phenomenological signatures associated with parity violation. The existing analyses of these signatures typically assume statistical isotropy. In the present work we instead investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-22 Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese , Marco Peloso , Maresuke Shiraishi

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

Gravitational parity violation is a possibility motivated by particle physics, string theory and loop quantum gravity. One effect of it is amplitude birefringence of gravitational waves, whereby left and right circularly-polarized waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-04 Nicolas Yunes , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Benjamin J. Owen , Stephon Alexander

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity is an extension of General Relativity in which the gravitational field is coupled to a scalar field through a parity-violating Chern-Simons term. In this framework, we study perturbations of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-04 C. Molina , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri