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Simplicial quantum gravity in more than two dimensions Neil Godfrey and Mark Gross pp. R1749-R1753 [View Page Images , PDF (650 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Solar-neutrino problem: Some old solutions reexamined Andy Acker, Sandip Pakvasa, and James Pantaleone pp. R1754-R1758 [View Page Images , PDF (1028 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Sterile-neutrino solutions to the solar puzzle V. Barger, N. Deshpande, P. B. Pal, R. J. Phillips, and K. Whisnant pp. R1759-R1762 [View Page Images , PDF (477 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Non-mean-field exponents in strongly coupled quenched QED Elbio Dagotto, John B. Kogut, and Aleksandar Kocić pp. R1763-R1767 [View Page Images , PDF (789 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Nonradial pulsations of stellar models in general relativity James R. Ipser and Richard H. Price pp. 1768-1773 [View Page Images , PDF (762 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distinctive positron feature from particle dark-matter annihilations in the galatic halo Marc Kamionkowski and Michael S. Turner pp. 1774-1780 [View Page Images , PDF (1372 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitino-induced baryogenesis: A problem made a virtue James Cline and Stuart Raby pp. 1781-1787 [View Page Images , PDF (1164 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical study of cosmic no-hair conjecture: Formalism and linear analysis Ken-ichi Nakao, Takashi Nakamura, Ken-ichi Oohara, and Kei-ichi Maeda pp. 1788-1797 [View Page Images , PDF (1315 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of singularities in the spherical gravitational collapse of a charged null fluid Kayll Lake and T. Zannias pp. 1798-1802 [View Page Images , PDF (757 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological quantum mechanics Viqar Husain pp. 1803-1807 [View Page Images , PDF (787 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical methods for solving the planar vacuum Einstein equations Peter Anninos, Joan Centrella, and Richard A. Matzner pp. 1808-1824 [View Page Images , PDF (2339 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear wave solutions to the planar vacuum Einstein equations Peter Anninos, Joan Centrella, and Richard A. Matzner pp. 1825-1838 [View Page Images , PDF (1586 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact solutions of a dynamical theory of gravity in 1 + 1 dimensions P. F. Kelly and R. B. Mann pp. 1839-1852 [View Page Images , PDF (2308 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Loss of coherence in multidimensional minisuperspaces A. Gangui, F. D. Mazzitelli, and M. A. Castagnino pp. 1853-1858 [View Page Images , PDF (892 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective potential for higher-derivative gravity coupled to scalars Hing Tong Cho pp. 1859-1868 [View Page Images , PDF (1227 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wormholes without conserved charges C. P. Burgess and S. Hagan pp. 1869-1875 [View Page Images , PDF (1146 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous aspects of chiral quantum gravity in two dimensions Thilo Berger and Izumi Tsutsui pp. 1876-1882 [View Page Images , PDF (1025 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Algebra of constraints for supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory coupled to supergravity A. Foussats and O. Zandron pp. 1883-1891 [View Page Images , PDF (1363 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infrared divergences in de Sitter space David Polarski pp. 1892-1895 [View Page Images , PDF (620 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal regularization and the one-loop topological mass in three-dimensional QED B. J. Hand and J. W. Moffat pp. 1896-1900 [View Page Images , PDF (582 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BRST-invariant nonplanar primitive operators in the open-bosonic-string theory T. Kobayashi, H. Konno, and T. Suzuki pp. 1901-1913 [View Page Images , PDF (1558 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Covariant canonical quantization of the relativistic free particle top R. P. Malik pp. 1914-1918 [View Page Images , PDF (859 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Threshold bound states and zero modes of fermions in a self-dual Chern-Simons vortex background G. Grignani and G. Nardelli pp. 1919-1932 [View Page Images , PDF (2249 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic wave equation for anyons R. Jackiw and V. P. Nair pp. 1933-1942 [View Page Images , PDF (1687 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Abelian and non-Abelian bosonization: The operator solution of the WZW σ model Rubens L. do Amaral and J. E. Ruiz pp. 1943-1948 [View Page Images , PDF (921 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dimensional reduction on multiply connected homogeneous spaces N. G. Kozimirov, V. A. Kuzmin, and I. I. Tkachev pp. 1949-1955 [View Page Images , PDF (1378 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge vacua in Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory on tori and projective spaces Mark Burgess, Alan McLachlan, and David J. Toms pp. 1956-1964 [View Page Images , PDF (1419 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projective multigrid method for propagators in lattice gauge theory Richard C. Brower, Claudio Rebbi, and Ettore Vicari pp. 1965-1973 [View Page Images , PDF (1351 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multigrid propagators in the presence of disordered U(1) gauge fields R. C. Brower, K. J. Moriarty, Claudio Rebbi, and Ettore Vicari pp. 1974-1977 [View Page Images , PDF (643 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum ground and excited states of the U(1) lattice gauge Hamiltonian A. Dabringhaus, M. L. Ristig, and J. W. Clark pp. 1978-1990 [View Page Images , PDF (2139 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonperturbative many-body techniques applied to the Yang-Mills Hamiltonian in the Schwinger gauge J. Ankerhold and D. Schütte pp. 1991-1998 [View Page Images , PDF (1058 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multi-instanton-induced baryon- and lepton-number violation in the electroweak theory Hideaki Aoyama and Hisashi Kikuchi pp. 1999-2002 [View Page Images , PDF (571 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quenched spectrum with staggered fermions Rajan Gupta, Gerald Guralnik, Gregory W. Kilcup, and Stephen R. Sharpe pp. 2003-2026 [View Page Images , PDF (3950 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sphalerons and axion dynamics in high-temperature QCD Larry McLerran, Emil Mottola, and Mikhail E. Shaposhnikov pp. 2027-2035 [View Page Images , PDF (1311 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric properties and stability of the Dirac sea Rodolfo P. Martriaanez y Romero, Matriaaas Moreno, and Arturo Zentella pp. 2036-2040 [View Page Images , PDF (797 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Effect of the solar eclipse on the period of a torsion pendulum T. Kuusela pp. 2041-2043 [View Page Images , PDF (491 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Remarks on the perturbative aspect of Dirac brackets Won-Tae Kim, Won-Ho Kye, and Byung-Ha Cho pp. 2044-2045 [View Page Images , PDF (210 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equivalence between the covariant, Weyl, and Coulomb gauges in the functional Schrödinger picture Sung Ku Kim, Wuk Namgung, Kwang Sup Soh, and Jae Hyung Yee pp. 2046-2049 [View Page Images , PDF (438 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformal anomaly for string theory from stochastic quantization Ki Soo Chung and Jae Kwan Kim pp. 2050-2053 [View Page Images , PDF (420 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on "BRST quantization of the extended supersymmetric spinning particle" M. Pierri and V. O. Rivelles pp. 2054-2055 [View Page Images , PDF (218 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Surface tension in finite-temperature quantum chromodynamics S. Huang, J. Potvin, C. Rebbi, and S. Sanielevici pp. 2056 [View Page Images or PDF (30 kB) ]