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Testing local Lorentz invariance with gravitational waves

arXiv:1602.04782 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.04.040

Abstract

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 mass dimension is constructed. The chirp signal from the gravitational-wave event GW150914 is used to place numerous first constraints on gravitational Lorentz violation.

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