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•	Gravitational light deflection and the dragging of inertial frames Marcus D. Gabriel, Mark P. Haugan, and Ziye Zhou pp. 2699-2702 [View Page Images , PDF (733 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of the Sun’s gravity on the distribution and detection of dark matter near the Earth Kim Griest pp. 2703-2713 [View Page Images , PDF (1930 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Astrophysical constraints on axion and Majoron couplings Rajat Chanda, José F. Nieves, and Palash B. Pal pp. 2714-2721 [View Page Images , PDF (1079 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General-relativistic implicit hydrodynamics in polar-sliced space-time Paul J. Schinder, Sidney A. Bludman, and Tsvi Piran pp. 2722-2731 [View Page Images , PDF (1405 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solution of the horizon and flatness problems by multiple inflations Philip Murphy and C. W. Kim pp. 2732-2742 [View Page Images , PDF (1760 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inflation-produced, large-scale magnetic fields Michael S. Turner and Lawrence M. Widrow pp. 2743-2754 [View Page Images , PDF (2264 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bulk-viscosity-driven asymmetric inflationary universe J. A. Lima, R. Portugal, and I. Waga pp. 2755-2760 [View Page Images , PDF (929 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Membrane viewpoint on black holes: Gravitational perturbations of the horizon W.-M. Suen, R. H. Price, and I. H. Redmount pp. 2761-2789 [View Page Images , PDF (4669 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New family of exact solutions for colliding plane gravitational waves Ulvi Yurtsever pp. 2790-2802 [View Page Images , PDF (1923 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Colliding almost-plane gravitational waves: Colliding plane waves and general properties of almost-plane-wave spacetimes Ulvi Yurtsever pp. 2803-2817 [View Page Images , PDF (2780 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum kinematics of spacetime. I. Nonrelativistic theory J. B. Hartle pp. 2818-2832 [View Page Images , PDF (2698 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational θ states and the wave function of the universe J. B. Hartle and D. M. Witt pp. 2833-2837 [View Page Images , PDF (841 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Index theorems and superconducting cosmic strings Gordon W. Semenoff pp. 2838-2852 [View Page Images , PDF (1996 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aspects of QED and non-Abelian gauge theories in S1≠3 and S1≠4 spacetimes Atsushi Higuchi and Leonard Parker pp. 2853-2871 [View Page Images , PDF (2479 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Massless scalar and antisymmetric tensor fields in de Sitter space Chandra Pathinayake, Alexander Vilenkin, and Bruce Allen pp. 2872-2877 [View Page Images , PDF (798 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium quantum fields: Closed-time-path effective action, Wigner function, and Boltzmann equation E. Calzetta and B. L. Hu pp. 2878-2900 [View Page Images , PDF (3475 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum kinetic field theory in curved spacetime: Covariant Wigner function and Liouville-Vlasov equations E. Calzetta, S. Habib, and B. L. Hu pp. 2901-2919 [View Page Images , PDF (2239 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous compactification and coupling constants in R2 unified gauge theories M. Rosenbaum and M. Ryan pp. 2920-2933 [View Page Images , PDF (1947 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformal field theory and the geometry of second quantization Mihaela Niculescu Sanielevici and Gordon W. Semenoff pp. 2934-2945 [View Page Images , PDF (1551 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global gauge anomalies for simple Lie algebras Huazhong Zhang, Susumu Okubo, and Yasunari Tosa pp. 2946-2957 [View Page Images , PDF (1910 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superrenormalizability in a model with supersymmetry breaking Tom Harrison pp. 2958-2963 [View Page Images , PDF (693 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal behavior of D-dimensional superstring models Minos Axenides, Stephen D. Ellis, and Costas Kounnas pp. 2964-2976 [View Page Images , PDF (2126 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Casimir force on a solid ball when ε(ω)μ(ω)=1 I. Brevik and G. Einevoll pp. 2977-2989 [View Page Images , PDF (1808 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Feynman path integral for fermions Robert E. Pugh pp. 2990-2995 [View Page Images , PDF (676 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral-symmetry breaking in QCD. III. Arbitrary covariant gauge D. Atkinson, P. W. Johnson, and K. Stam pp. 2996-3000 [View Page Images , PDF (609 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact ground-state properties of SU(3) Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory Siu A. Chin, Chris Long, and D. Robson pp. 3001-3005 [View Page Images , PDF (711 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved variational wave functions for SU(3) Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory Chris Long, D. Robson, and Siu A. Chin pp. 3006-3009 [View Page Images , PDF (563 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational calculation of the spectrum of two-dimensional φ4 theory in light-front field theory A. Harindranath and J. P. Vary pp. 3010-3013 [View Page Images , PDF (543 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Regulating 1/(k+)n singularities in discrete light-cone quantization Andrew C. Tang pp. 3014-3018 [View Page Images , PDF (507 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	N=(1/2 hidden symmetries H. W. Braden pp. 3019-3023 [View Page Images , PDF (782 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum and excited states of Coulomb-gauge SU(n) Yang-Mills fields R. E. Cutkosky and K. C. Wang pp. 3024-3032 [View Page Images , PDF (1527 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport theory of the quark-gluon plasma based on an operator-field Langevin equation Masashi Mizutani, Shin Muroya, and Mikio Namiki pp. 3033-3045 [View Page Images , PDF (1618 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum contribution to the electric polarizability in 1+1 dimensions R. K. Bhaduri and C. S. Warke pp. 3046-3048 [View Page Images , PDF (369 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	On the magnitude of baryon-to-photon ratio inhomogeneities resulting from a first-order quark-hadron transition Michael S. Turner pp. 3049-3051 [View Page Images , PDF (401 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Domain walls with bound Bose condensates Hardy M. Hodges pp. 3052-3055 [View Page Images , PDF (584 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiative corrections to the solar-neutrino counting rate in the gallium detector Duane A. Dicus and Sanford L. Wilson pp. 3056-3058 [View Page Images , PDF (329 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correction to ‘‘Acceleration radiation and the generalized second law of thermodynamics’’ Marek J. Radzikowski and W. G. Unruh pp. 3059-3060 [View Page Images , PDF (169 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Focusing process in the collision of gravitational plane waves Valeria Ferrari pp. 3061-3064 [View Page Images , PDF (685 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Limit properties of Feynman integrals in noncovariant algebraic gauges A. Bassetto and R. Soldati pp. 3065-3066 [View Page Images , PDF (275 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical dimensions for chiral bosons Luca Mezincescu and Rafael I. Nepomechie pp. 3067-3069 [View Page Images , PDF (404 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hamiltonian formulation and BRS quantization of the fermionic string in the covariant gauge JaeKwan Kim, I. G. Koh, and DaeYup Song pp. 3070-3073 [View Page Images , PDF (425 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eigenmodes for fluctuations about the classical solutions in the generalized Liouville equation K. Gediz Akdeniz, Cengiz Dane, and Mahmut Hortacsu pp. 3074-3076 [View Page Images , PDF (323 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effective scalar field theory of p-adic string Paul H. Frampton and Yasuhiro Okada pp. 3077-3079 [View Page Images , PDF (353 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Twisting, type-N vacuum gravitational fields with symmetries F. J. Chinea pp. 3080-3082 [View Page Images , PDF (454 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]