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We study nanohertz gravitational waves relevant to pulsar timing array experiments from quantum fluctuations in the early universe with null energy condition (NEC) violation. The NEC violation admits accelerated expansion with the scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Hiroaki W. H. Tahara , Tsutomu Kobayashi

In quantum theory of gravity, we expect the Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) and the modification of the dispersion relation between energy and momentum for photons. The effect of the energy-dependent velocity due to the modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-24 Yu Pan , Yungui Gong , Shuo Cao , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu

In this work, we compute some phenomenological bounds for the electromagnetic and massive gravitational high-derivative extensions supposing that it is possible to have an astrophysical process that generates simultaneously gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-30 E. Passos , M. A. Anacleto , F. A. Brito , O. Holanda , G. B. Souza , C. A. D. Zarro

Observations of energy-dependent photon time delays from distant flaring sources provide significant constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). Such effects originate from modified vacuum dispersion relations, causing differences in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Merce Guerrero , Anna Campoy-Ordaz , Robertus Potting , Markus Gaug

Lorentz symmetry is a fundamental property of Einstein's theory of general relativity that one may wish to test with gravitational wave observations. Einstein-aether theory is a model that introduces Lorentz-symmetry breaking in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-01 Kristen Schumacher , Scott Ellis Perkins , Ashley Shaw , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational wave observations have been used to test Lorentz symmetry by looking for dispersive effects that are caused by higher order corrections to the dispersion relation. In this Letter I argue on general grounds that, when such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Thomas P. Sotiriou

Recently, the NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA collaborations independently reported their evidence of the Stochastic Gravitational Waves Background (SGWB). While the inferred gravitational-wave background amplitude and spectrum are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-21 Yi-Fu Cai , Xin-Chen He , Xiao-Han Ma , Sheng-Feng Yan , Guan-Wen Yuan

An effective field theory framework, the Standard-Model Extension, is used to investigate the existence of Lorentz and CPT-violating effects during gravitational wave propagation. We implement a modified equation for the dispersion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-08 Leïla Haegel , Kellie O'Neal-Ault , Quentin G. Bailey , Jay D. Tasson , Malachy Bloom , Lijing Shao

We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves in the presence of Lorentz- and diffeomorphism-violating operators within the linearized gravitational sector of the Standard Model Extension. Focusing on isotropic contributions, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

Theories of modified gravity suggest that the propagation speed of gravitational wave (GW) $v_g$ may deviate from the speed of light $c$. A constraint can be placed on the difference between $c$ and $v_g$ with a simple method that uses the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 Jin-Hui Rao , Shu-Xu Yi , Lian Tao , Qing-Wen Tang

In the gravity quantum theory, the quantization of spacetime may lead to the modification of the dispersion relation between the energy and the momentum and the Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). High energy and long-distance gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Mingyue Chen , Jun Tian , Yu Pan , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao

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

We study effects of Lorentz-invariance violation on the rotation of neutron stars (NSs) in the minimal gravitational Standard-Model Extension framework, and calculate the quadrupole radiation generated by them. Aiming at testing Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-01 Rui Xu , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao

Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) arises in various quantum-gravity theories. As the typical energy for quantum gravity is the Planck mass, $M_{pl}$, LIV will, most likely, be manifested at very high energies that are not accessible on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Uri Jacob , Tsvi Piran

The dipole anomaly in the power spectrum of CMB may indicate that the Lorentz boost invarianc is violated at cosmic scale. We assume that the Lorentz symmetry is violated partly from the scale of galaxy. We employ the symmetry of very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 Yiwei Wu , Xun Xue , Lixiang Yang , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We consider here the possibility of quantum gravity induced violation of Lorentz symmetry (LV). Even if suppressed by the inverse Planck mass such LV can be tested by current experiments and astrophysical observations. We review the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ted Jacobson , Stefano Liberati , David Mattingly

Modified gravity theories are supposed to incorporate low-energy quantum-gravity effects and, at the same time, they could shed light into the dark matter and dark energy problems. Here we study a particular modification of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-28 Yuri Bonder , Gabriel Leon

Lorentz Violation (LV) is posited as a possible relic effect of quantum gravity at low energy scales. The Standard-Model Extension provides an effective field-theoretic framework for examining possible deviations attributed to LV. With…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-12 Yiming Dong , Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao

Lorentz violation modifies the dispersion relation of gravitational waves (GWs), and induces birefringence and anisotropy in propagation. Our study shows that Lorentz violation can also activate multiple polarizations of GWs. We use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-20 Dicong Liang , Rui Xu , Xuchen Lu , Lijing Shao

The standard model extension (SME) is an effective field theory framework that can be used to study the possible violations of Lorentz symmetry and diffeomorphism invariance in the gravitational interaction. In this paper, we explore both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Qiang Wang , Jian-Ming Yan , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao