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Lower Bound on the Propagation Speed of Gravity from Gravitational Cherenkov Radiation

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arxiv hep-ph/0106220 v2 pith:ZOS3425E submitted 2001-06-19 hep-ph astro-phgr-qchep-th

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Recently, interesting 4-D Lorentz violating models have been proposed, in which all particles have a common maximum velocity $c$, but gravity propagates (in the preferred frame) with a different maximum velocity $c_g \neq c$. We show that the case $c_g < c$ is very tightly constrained by the observation of the highest energy cosmic rays. Assuming a galactic origin for the cosmic rays gives a conservative bound of $c-c_g < 2 \times 10^{-15} c$; if the cosmic rays have an extragalactic origin the bound is orders of magnitude tighter, of order $c-c_g < 2 \times 10^{-19} c$.

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  1. Vacuum Cherenkov radiation for nonminimal dimension-5 Lorentz violation

    hep-ph 2025-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Isotropic dimension-5 Lorentz violation in fermions is constrained to below 1e-18 GeV^-1 (proton, m-type) and 3e-28 GeV^-1 (proton, a-type) by the absence of vacuum Cherenkov radiation in cosmic rays.

  2. Better early than never: A new test for superluminal gravitational wave polarizations

    gr-qc 2025-01 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A backward search in time from known gravitational wave detections could detect or constrain superluminal non-tensor polarizations, and the authors argue this is feasible with current detectors.

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