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Constraints on parity and Lorentz violations from gravitational waves: a comparison between single-parameter and multi-parameter analysis

Wei-Hua Guo·Yuan-Zhu Wang·Tao Zhu·Hai-Tian Wang
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The growing catalog of gravitational wave (GW) detections by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration enables increasingly stringent tests of general relativity, particularly regarding possible violations of parity and Lorentz symmetry. Parity and Lorentz violations in gravity can modify both the damping rate and dispersion relation of GWs, leading to birefringence, frequency-dependent damping, and dispersion effects in the propagation of GWs. These effects result in amplitude and phase corrections of the waveforms of GWs produced by the coalescence of compact binaries, which enable us to constrain parity- and Lorentz-violating effects by analyzing GW signals detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors with the distorted waveforms. While most current analyses employ single-parameter methods-varying one deformation parameter at a time-modified gravity theories often predict multiple, coexisting deviations. In this work, we construct several specific multi-parameter GW waveform models incorporating parity- and Lorentz-violating effects and perform full Bayesian parameter estimation to compare multi-parameter and single-parameter constraints. We find that including multiple deformation parameters yields constraints on individual parameters that are generally comparable to those from single-parameter analyses, despite one specific model showing a degeneracy between the deformation parameters. Our results support the robustness of single-parameter tests for parity and Lorentz symmetry of gravity in current and future GW observations.

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Wei-Hua Guo, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Tao Zhu, Hai-Tian Wang. 2025-07-13. Constraints on parity and Lorentz violations from gravitational waves: a comparison between single-parameter and multi-parameter analysis. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516%2F2026%2F04%2F066

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