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In this paper, we investigate chiral gravitational wave (GW) signals generated from inflation to reheating, driven by a parity-violating (PV) term coupled to the inflaton. During inflation, the PV term reduces the sound horizon for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Chengjie Fu , Chao Chen , Yi Wang

We study the inflationary implications of a novel parity-violating gravity model, which modifies the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity by introducing the Nieh-Yan term coupled to an axion-like field. The parity-violating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-14 Rong-Gen Cai , Chengjie Fu , Wang-Wei Yu

The question of whether the parity violation occurs in gravitational interaction has recently attracted much attention. In this paper, we investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in symmetric teleparallel gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Fengge Zhang

The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently suggested the presence of a gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. In this paper, we explore potential inflationary interpretation of this signal within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Chengjie Fu , Jing Liu , Xing-Yu Yang , Wang-Wei Yu , Yawen Zhang

Violation of parity symmetry in the gravitational sector, which manifests into unequal left and right circular polarization states of primordial gravitational waves, represents a way to test high-energy modifications to general relativity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Nicola Bartolo , Luca Caloni , Giorgio Orlando , Angelo Ricciardone

We investigate the consequences of a transient phase of enhanced parity violation during inflation. Modeling this phase through a time-localized Chern--Simons-like coupling, we show that it amplifies primordial gravitational waves at small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Gianmassimo Tasinato

We study primordial gravitational waves produced during inflation in quantum gravity at a Lifshitz point proposed by Ho${\rm\check{r}}$ava. Assuming power-counting renormalizability, foliation preserving diffeomorphism invariance, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-12 Tomohiro Takahashi , Jiro Soda

We re-examine the problem of parity violation in single field inflation. We look for a systematic way to parametrically approach the scale at which maximal parity violation occurs, which is where we expect to find the presence of the Chern…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Maria Mylova

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

We study both primordial gravitational waves (GWs) and scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in a class of the parity-violating scalar-tensor (PVST) theory, of which the Lagrangian is the linear combination of seven ghost-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Jia-Xi Feng , Jia-Yuan Fang , Xian Gao

The spatial covariant gravities provide a natural way to including odd-order spatial derivative terms into the gravitational action, which breaks the parity symmetry at gravitational sector. A lot of parity-violating scalar-tensor theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

In this paper, we investigate the Axion-like Particle inflation by applying the multi-nature inflation model, where the end of inflation is achieved through the phase transition (PT). The events of PT should not be less than $200$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wei Cheng , Tao Qian , Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Rui-Yu Zhou

Primordial gravitational waves are a crucial prediction of inflation theory, and their detection through their imprints on the cosmic microwave background is actively being pursued. However, these attempts have not yet been successful. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yan-Heng Yu , Sai Wang

We study the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) from a chiral scalar-tensor theory of gravity. The parity-violating (PV) Lagrangian contains the Chern-Simons (CS) term and PV scalar-tensor terms, which are built of the quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

The examination of parity symmetry in gravitational interactions has drawn increasing attention. Although Einstein's General Relativity is parity-conserved, numerous theories of parity-violating (PV) gravity in different frameworks have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Jin Qiao , Zhao Li , Tao Zhu , Ran Ji , Guoliang Li , Wen Zhao

I will review briefly how inflation is expected to generate a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves (GWs). Then, I will discuss how such GWs can be enhanced by a stiff period following inflation, enough to be observable. I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Supersolid inflation is a class of inflationary theories that simultaneously breaks time and space reparameterization invariance during inflation, with distinctive features for the dynamics of cosmological fluctuations. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

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

We propose a mechanism to evade the Lyth bound in models of inflation. We minimally extend the conventional single-field inflation model in general relativity (GR) to a theory with non-vanishing graviton mass in the very early universe. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Chunshan Lin , Misao Sasaki

We study the evolution of Gravitational Waves (GWs) during and after inflation as well as the resulting observational consequences in a Lorentz-violating massive gravity theory with one scalar (inflaton) and two tensor degrees of freedom.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-23 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Chunshan Lin , Misao Sasaki , Shinji Tsujikawa
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