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•	General-relativistic plasma physics in the early Universe Katherine A. Holcomb and Toshiki Tajima pp. 3809-3818 [View Page Images , PDF (1743 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge radius of the neutrino: A limit from SN 1987 A J. A. Grifols and E. Massó pp. 3819-3820 [View Page Images , PDF (336 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational angular fluctuations of the cosmic background radiation produced by cosmological linear perturbations Kenji Tomita pp. 3821-3827 [View Page Images , PDF (889 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Halo γ rays from cold-dark-matter annihilation Katherine Freese and Joseph Silk pp. 3828-3833 [View Page Images , PDF (1014 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrodynamics of the event horizon Brian Punsly and Ferdinand V. Coroniti pp. 3834-3857 [View Page Images , PDF (4447 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interactions of magnetohydrodynamic waves with gravitomagnetic fields, and their possible roles in black-hole magnetospheres Xiao-He Zhang pp. 3858-3883 [View Page Images , PDF (4417 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near optimal solution to the inverse problem for gravitational-wave bursts Yekta Gürsel and Massimo Tinto pp. 3884-3938 [View Page Images , PDF (7760 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum mechanics of exponential-potential inflation Bharat Ratra pp. 3939-3949 [View Page Images , PDF (1349 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Some problems with extended inflation Erick J. Weinberg pp. 3950-3959 [View Page Images , PDF (1710 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of rotation on the initial state of the Universe Roberto Bergamini and Giacomo Giampieri pp. 3960-3967 [View Page Images , PDF (912 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmic strings and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays Pijushpani Bhattacharjee pp. 3968-3975 [View Page Images , PDF (1284 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model of two perfect fluids for an anisotropic and homogeneous universe Samuel R. Oliveira pp. 3976-3981 [View Page Images , PDF (709 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is minisuperspace quantization valid?: Taub in mixmaster Karel V. Kuchař and Michael P. Ryan pp. 3982-3996 [View Page Images , PDF (2627 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inevitable ambiguity in perturbation around flat space-time Shoichi Ichinose and Yasuhito Kaminaga pp. 3997-4010 [View Page Images , PDF (2054 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple-sphere configurations in the path-integral representation of the wave function of the Universe Jonathan J. Halliwell and Robert C. Myers pp. 4011-4022 [View Page Images , PDF (2265 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of the cosmic density matrix Masahiro Morikawa pp. 4023-4027 [View Page Images , PDF (876 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Higher-dimensional black-hole solution with dilaton field Sung-Won Kim and Byung Ha Cho pp. 4028-4032 [View Page Images , PDF (842 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic superfluids and vortex rings R. L. Davis pp. 4033-4036 [View Page Images , PDF (605 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BRST quantization of the superstring in background fields Ashok Das, Jnanadeva Maharana, and Shibaji Roy pp. 4037-4046 [View Page Images , PDF (1289 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin quantization of closed type-II superstring in curved background with torsion S. Alam pp. 4047-4055 [View Page Images , PDF (1054 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modular invariance and stochastic quantization Carlos R. Ordóez, Mark A. Rubin, and Daniel Zwanziger pp. 4056-4072 [View Page Images , PDF (2486 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General solutions of covariant superstring equations of motion Corinne A. Manogue and Anthony Sudbery pp. 4073-4077 [View Page Images , PDF (715 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric open strings in fewer than ten dimensions L. Clavelli, P. H. Cox, P. Elmfors, and B. Harms pp. 4078-4084 [View Page Images , PDF (972 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical symmetry breaking from toroidal compactification James E. Hetrick and Choon-Lin Ho pp. 4085-4091 [View Page Images , PDF (1042 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solvable two-dimensional models and the Virasoro algebra K. Tanaka pp. 4092-4095 [View Page Images , PDF (532 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On the finite-temperature quantum electrodynamics of gravitational acceleration G. Barton pp. 4096-4099 [View Page Images , PDF (729 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muonium and positronium potentials Suraj N. Gupta, Wayne W. Repko, and Casimir J. Suchyta pp. 4100-4104 [View Page Images , PDF (470 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ζ-function regularization of chiral Jacobians for singular Dirac operators C. E. Carneiro, S. A. Dias, and M. T. Thomaz pp. 4105-4110 [View Page Images , PDF (765 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy-momentum tensor in scalar QED. II Satish D. Joglekar and Achla Mishra pp. 4111-4116 [View Page Images , PDF (788 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoupling in supersymmetric gauge theories T. E. Clark and S. T. Love pp. 4117-4122 [View Page Images , PDF (807 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global chiral-invariant formulation of lattice gauge theory J. -L. Alonso, P. Boucaud, J. -L. Cortès, and E. Rivas pp. 4123-4129 [View Page Images , PDF (1174 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-temperature sphalerons John M. Cornwall pp. 4130-4141 [View Page Images , PDF (2049 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topologically nontrivial solutions to Yang-Mills equations with axisymmetric external sources M. P. Filho, A. K. Kerman, and Howard D. Trottier pp. 4142-4150 [View Page Images , PDF (1531 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Composite-operator effective-action considerations on bound states and corresponding S-matrix elements Douglas W. McKay and Herman J. Munczek pp. 4151-4156 [View Page Images , PDF (933 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge-invariant, nonperturbative approach to quark confinement and chiral-symmetry breaking in QCD V. Sh. Gogokhia pp. 4157-4166 [View Page Images , PDF (1532 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Color distribution of confining electric flux in Abelian projection gauges J. Greensite and J. Winchester pp. 4167-4170 [View Page Images , PDF (603 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermion self-energy corrections in perturbative theory at finite temperature T. Altherr and P. Aurenche pp. 4171-4177 [View Page Images , PDF (917 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Question of the nonlocality of the Aharonov-Casher effect B. Reznik and Y. Aharonov pp. 4178-4183 [View Page Images , PDF (950 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	On the Tolman-Hawking wormhole P. F. González-Diaz pp. 4184-4185 [View Page Images , PDF (321 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heat equation for the free closed bosonic string J. Trisnadi pp. 4186-4187 [View Page Images , PDF (164 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hamiltonian diagonalization in foliable space-times: A method to find the modes Mario Castagnino and Rafael Ferraro pp. 4188-4190 [View Page Images , PDF (356 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature inversion symmetry in the Casimir effect F. Ravndal and D. Tollefsen pp. 4191-4192 [View Page Images , PDF (345 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible avoidance of a no-go theorem for glueballs in an effective-action model of QCD Roberto R. Mendel and Howard D. Trottier pp. 4193-4195 [View Page Images , PDF (424 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Application of a generalized Feynman-Hellmann theorem to bound-state energy levels D. B. Lichtenberg pp. 4196-4198 [View Page Images , PDF (333 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on "Effective string tension in the finite-temperature smooth-string model" G. Germán and H. Kleinert pp. 4199-4200 [View Page Images , PDF (223 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Bulk viscosity of hot neutron-star matter and the maximum rotation rates of neutron stars Raymond F. Sawyer pp. 4201 [View Page Images or PDF (53 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Spotting conformally flat solutions of the Einstein equations Kayll Lake pp. 4201 [View Page Images or PDF (53 kB) ]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Derivative expansions in quantum electrodynamics Hae Won Lee, Pong Youl Pac, and Hyun Kuk Shin pp. 4202-4205 [View Page Images , PDF (479 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]