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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 effects of local Lorentz violation on dispersion and birefringence of gravitational waves are investigated. The covariant dispersion relation for gravitational waves involving gauge-invariant Lorentz-violating operators of arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

Lorentz invariance violation in quantum gravity (QG) models or a nonzero photon mass, $m_\gamma$, would lead to an energy-dependent propagation speed for photons, such that photons of different energies from a distant source would arrive at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-19 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira , Jens Jasche

Much research has been done in the latter years on the subject of Lorentz violation induced by Quantum Gravity effects. On the theoretical side it has been shown that both Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory predict that Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Vucetich

In quantum gravity, a foamy structure of space-time leads to Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). As the most energetic astrophysical processes in the Universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide an effective way to probe quantum gravity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-22 Zhe Chang , Xin Li , Hai-Nan Lin , Yu Sang , Ping Wang , Sai Wang

Lorentz symmetry (LS), one of the most fundamental physical symmetries, has been extensively studied in the context of quantum gravity and unification theories. Many of these theories predict a LS violation, which could arise from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-16 Cheng-Gang Qin , Jun Ke , Qin Li , Ya-Fen Chen , Jie Luo , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

Lorentz invariance is one of the fundamental tenets of Special Relativity, and has been extensively tested with laboratory and astrophysical observations. However, many quantum gravity models and theories beyond the Standard Model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Shantanu Desai

Arrays of precisely-timed millisecond pulsars are used to search for gravitational waves with periods of months to decades. Gravitational waves affect the path of radio pulses propagating from a pulsar to Earth, causing the arrival times of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Stephen R. Taylor

Searching for a modified dispersion relation is one of the general relativity tests performed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration with each new cumulative Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC). It considers classes of theories that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Tomasz Baka , Balázs Cirok , K. Haris , Johannes Noller , N. V. Krishnendu

General relativity predicts that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light. Although ground-based gravitational-wave detectors have successfully constrained the velocity of gravitational waves in the high-frequency range,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Yan-Chen Bi , Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

We perform an observational study of modified gravity considering a potential inflationary interpretation of pulsar timing arrays (PTA). We use a motivated model known as no slip in which the gravitational wave propagation is modified.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohammadreza Davari , Alireza Allahyari , Shahram Khosravi

The tiny modification of dispersion relation induced by Lorentz violation (LV) is an essential issue in quantum gravity (QG) theories, which can be magnified into significant effects when dealing with astrophysical observations at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Liang Chen , Zheng Xiong , Cong Li , SongZhan Chen , HuiHai He

Strong evidence for the Helling-Downs correlation curves have been reported by multiple pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in middle 2023. In this work, we investigate the graviton mass bounds by analyzing the observational data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-20 Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

Electromagnetic resonant cavities form the basis of many tests of Lorentz invariance involving photons. The effects of some forms of Lorentz violation scale with cavity size. We investigate possible signals of violations in the naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Matthew Mewes

As is well known, there exist some Lorentz breaking scenarios which explain the smallness of the cosmological constant in the present era. An important aspect to analyze is the propagation of gravitational waves and the screening or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 O. Santillan , M. Scornavacche

Dense, continuous pulsar timing observations over a 24-hr period provide a method for probing intermediate gravitational wave (GW) frequencies from 10 microhertz to 20 millihertz. The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA), the North American…

We perform numerical simulations of gravitational waves (GWs) induced by hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulent sources that might have been present at cosmological quantum chromodynamic (QCD) phase transitions. For turbulent energies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Axel Brandenburg , Emma Clarke , Yutong He , Tina Kahniashvili

We investigate scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the framework of spatially covariant gravity (SCG), a broad class of Lorentz-violating modified gravity theories respecting only spatial diffeomorphism invariance. Extending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Jiehao Jiang , Jieming Lin , Xian Gao

We study the effect of Spontaneous Lorentz Symmetry Breaking (SLSB) on Primordial Gravitational Waves (PGWs) generated during inflation. The SLSB is induced by a time-like Bumblebee vector field which is non-minimally coupled to the Ricci…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Mohsen Khodadi , Gaetano Lambiase , Leonardo Mastrototaro , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

This study evaluates the capability of future multi-band observations of gravitational waves emitted from binary black hole coalescences, utilizing joint third-generation ground-based (CE, ET) and space-based (LISA, Taiji, TianQin) detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Zhi-Xin Jia , Tao Zhu , Zhoujian Cao