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Effects of gravitational back reaction on small-scale structure of cosmic strings Jean M. Quashnock and Tsvi Piran pp. R3785-R3788 [View Page Images , PDF (767 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Einstein equivalence principle and the polarization of radio galaxies Sean M. Carroll and George B. Field pp. 3789-3793 [View Page Images , PDF (863 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical relativistic hydrodynamics: Local characteristic approach José Ma. Martí, José Ma. Ibáñez, and Juan A. Miralles pp. 3794-3801 [View Page Images , PDF (1028 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Joining conditions for cosmological perturbations at an equation-of-state transition Bharat Ratra pp. 3802-3812 [View Page Images , PDF (1897 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quark-hadron phase transition of the early Universe in the nontopological soliton model K. -W. Ng and W. K. Sze pp. 3813-3820 [View Page Images , PDF (1172 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How does inflation isotropize the Universe? Peter Anninos, Richard A. Matzner, Tony Rothman, and Michael P. Ryan pp. 3821-3832 [View Page Images , PDF (2590 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scale-invariant extended inflation Richard Holman, Edward W. Kolb, Sharon L. Vadas, and Yun Wang pp. 3833-3845 [View Page Images , PDF (1987 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum state of a nucleating bubble Tanmay Vachaspati and Alexander Vilenkin pp. 3846-3855 [View Page Images , PDF (1434 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thin walls and plane-symmetric fluids with pressure equal to energy density Chris Vuille pp. 3856-3860 [View Page Images , PDF (680 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General first law and thermodynamics of horizon/matter systems G. Hayward pp. 3861-3872 [View Page Images , PDF (1624 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleosynthesis constraints on an extended Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory Thibault Damour and Carsten Gundlach pp. 3873-3877 [View Page Images , PDF (790 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum polarization in a locally static multiply connected spacetime and a time-machine problem Valery P. Frolov pp. 3878-3894 [View Page Images , PDF (2807 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational stability of boson stars Fjodor V. Kusmartsev, Eckehard W. Mielke, and Franz E. Schunck pp. 3895-3901 [View Page Images , PDF (1311 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalization of Kerr spacetime Hernando Quevedo and Bahram Mashhoon pp. 3902-3906 [View Page Images , PDF (802 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Celestial mechanics, conformal structures, and gravitational waves Christian Duval, Gary Gibbons, and Péter Horváthy pp. 3907-3922 [View Page Images , PDF (2462 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadratic gravity and the black-hole singularity Eric Poisson pp. 3923-3928 [View Page Images , PDF (982 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Do vacuum fluctuations prevent the creation of closed timelike curves? Sung-Won Kim and Kip S. Thorne pp. 3929-3947 [View Page Images , PDF (3592 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical gravity in 1+1 dimensions R. B. Mann, S. M. Morsink, A. E. Sikkema, and T. G. Steele pp. 3948-3957 [View Page Images , PDF (1543 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ζ-function regularization of one-loop effective potentials in anti-de Sitter spacetime Roberto Camporesi pp. 3958-3965 [View Page Images , PDF (1135 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting strings and stable loops Vanda Silveira pp. 3966-3971 [View Page Images , PDF (790 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraints on negative-energy fluxes L. H. Ford pp. 3972-3978 [View Page Images , PDF (954 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dirac vacuum: Acceleration and external-field effects R. Jáuregui, M. Torres, and S. Hacyan pp. 3979-3989 [View Page Images , PDF (1254 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior of heterotic strings to all orders in string perturbation theory Enrique Álvarez, Tomás Ortín, and M. A. Osorio pp. 3990-3997 [View Page Images , PDF (1099 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bosonization of odd-spin-structure amplitudes L. Clavelli, P. H. Cox, B. Harms, and H. Konno pp. 3998-4005 [View Page Images , PDF (874 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Canonical quantization of Witten's string field theory using midpoint light-cone time Masahiro Maeno pp. 4006-4014 [View Page Images , PDF (1101 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Matrix realization of random surfaces Misao Sasaki and Hiroshi Suzuki pp. 4015-4028 [View Page Images , PDF (2059 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Towards a qualitative understanding of the scattering of topological defects Carl Rosenzweig and Ajit Mohan Srivastava pp. 4029-4041 [View Page Images , PDF (2488 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle fields at finite temperature from string field theory Robert Bluhm pp. 4042-4050 [View Page Images , PDF (1395 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization in the light-front Tamm-Dancoff approach to field theory Robert J. Perry and Avaroth Harindranath pp. 4051-4073 [View Page Images , PDF (3550 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Note on Chern-Simons solitons D. Bazeia pp. 4074-4079 [View Page Images , PDF (805 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice U(1) gauge model in 3 + 1 dimensions C. J. Hamer and M. Aydin pp. 4080-4087 [View Page Images , PDF (1089 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional Euclidean anomalous effective actions in exactly solvable Abelian models A. Bassetto, L. Griguolo, and R. Soldati pp. 4088-4099 [View Page Images , PDF (1591 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero modes of the self-dual Maxwell Chern-Simons solitons Choonkyu Lee, Hyunsoo Min, and Chaiho Rim pp. 4100-4110 [View Page Images , PDF (1576 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particles with small violations of Fermi or Bose statistics O. W. Greenberg pp. 4111-4120 [View Page Images , PDF (1697 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermion masses from supersymmetric dynamics in proper time P. D. Jarvis and M. J. White pp. 4121-4128 [View Page Images , PDF (1386 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compositeness and the reduction of couplings Fred Cooper and Juan Perez-Mercader pp. 4129-4132 [View Page Images , PDF (597 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General theory of quantum statistics with internal degrees of freedom in two dimensions Yi-xin Chen and Guang-jiong Ni pp. 4133-4141 [View Page Images , PDF (1303 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Renormalized electromagnetic stress tensor for an evaporating black hole B. P. Jensen, J. G. McLaughlin, and A. C. Ottewill pp. 4142-4144 [View Page Images , PDF (344 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heat-kernel and negative-power-kernel regularization prescriptions in the computation of anomalies M. S. Alves, C. Farina, and C. Wotzasek pp. 4145-4147 [View Page Images , PDF (445 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complete description of gauge-invariant fields in a pure gauge theory M. Azam pp. 4148-4149 [View Page Images , PDF (322 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Surface tension of strange-quark matter in the early Universe Micheal S. Berger pp. 4150 [View Page Images or PDF (46 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Gravitational waves emitted from infinite strings Maria Sakellariadou pp. 4150 [View Page Images or PDF (46 kB) ]