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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Simple effective Lagrangian for hard thermal loops Eric Braaten and Robert D. Pisarski pp. R1827-R1830 [View Page Images , PDF (664 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Duality invariance in four-dimensional N=2 supergravity M. Villasante pp. R1831-R1835 [View Page Images , PDF (554 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Trapped surfaces in expanding open universes Uwe Brauer and Edward Malec pp. R1836-R1839 [View Page Images , PDF (542 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Strong-field tests of relativistic gravity and binary pulsars Thibault Damour and J. H. Taylor pp. 1840-1868 [View Page Images , PDF (5348 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multipump and quasistroboscopic back-action evasion measurements for resonant-bar gravitational-wave antennas Linda E. Marchese, Mark F. Bocko, and Roberto Onofrio pp. 1869-1877 [View Page Images , PDF (1311 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boson star in a gravitation theory with dilaton Zhi-jian Tao and Xun Xue pp. 1878-1883 [View Page Images , PDF (765 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Small-scale structure on cosmic strings and galaxy formation Dan N. Vollick pp. 1884-1897 [View Page Images , PDF (1999 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational radiation from cosmic strings B. Allen and E. P. Shellard pp. 1898-1912 [View Page Images , PDF (2406 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inflation in an exponential-potential scalar field model Bharat Ratra pp. 1913-1952 [View Page Images , PDF (6044 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	No Starobinsky inflation from self-consistent semiclassical gravity Jonathan Z. Simon pp. 1953-1960 [View Page Images , PDF (1367 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-scale-invariant density perturbations from chaotic extended inflation Silvia Mollerach and Sabino Matarrese pp. 1961-1970 [View Page Images , PDF (1653 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Texture collapse T. Prokopec, A. Sornborger, and R. H. Brandenberger pp. 1971-1981 [View Page Images , PDF (1952 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge-invariant cosmic structures—A dynamic systems approach Andrzej Woszczyna pp. 1982-1988 [View Page Images , PDF (1111 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time machine and self-consistent evolution in problems with self-interaction I. D. Novikov pp. 1989-1994 [View Page Images , PDF (920 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General class of inhomogeneous perfect-fluid solutions Eduardo Ruiz and José M. Senovilla pp. 1995-2005 [View Page Images , PDF (1500 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational collapse of rotating spheroids and the formation of naked singularities Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A. Teukolsky pp. 2006-2012 [View Page Images , PDF (988 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Four-dimensional quantum gravity in the conformal sector Ignatios Antoniadis and Emil Mottola pp. 2013-2025 [View Page Images , PDF (1918 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric microsuperspace quantization for the Taub model J. Socorro, O. Obregón, and A. Macías pp. 2026-2032 [View Page Images , PDF (952 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum metric spaces as a model for pregeometry Enrique Alvarez, Juli Céspedes, and Enric Verdaguer pp. 2033-2043 [View Page Images , PDF (1672 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Functional Schrödinger equation for scalar QED Claus Kiefer pp. 2044-2056 [View Page Images , PDF (2035 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	String-inspired supergravity model at one loop Mary K. Gaillard, A. Papadopoulos, and D. M. Pierce pp. 2057-2065 [View Page Images , PDF (1067 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diagrammatics for finite-temperature reaction rates Naoki Ashida, Hisao Nakkagawa, Akira Niégawa, and Hiroshi Yokota pp. 2066-2072 [View Page Images , PDF (1062 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	δ expansion applied to strong-coupling Z(2), U(1), and SU(2) gauge theory on the lattice in four dimensions I. R. Buckley and H. F. Jones pp. 2073-2080 [View Page Images , PDF (953 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Closed-form expressions for thermal Green's functions in field theories A. P. de Almeida, J. Frenkel, and J. C. Taylor pp. 2081-2085 [View Page Images , PDF (539 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective modes in dense neutrino systems J. Chakrabarti and R. Kögerler pp. 2086-2089 [View Page Images , PDF (598 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Consistency and current algebras of a non-Abelian chiral gauge theory in four dimensions S. Miyake and K. Shizuya pp. 2090-2097 [View Page Images , PDF (1212 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cluster algorithm for two-dimensional U(1) lattice gauge theory R. Sinclair pp. 2098-2100 [View Page Images , PDF (419 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved complex Langevin method for (2+1)-dimensional lattices John R. Klauder and Sean Lee pp. 2101-2104 [View Page Images , PDF (476 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-energy multileg electroweak processes and unitarity John M. Cornwall and George Tiktopoulos pp. 2105-2120 [View Page Images , PDF (2772 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schwinger terms in charge-density commutators Lay Nam Chang and Yigao Liang pp. 2121-2124 [View Page Images , PDF (621 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-size effects on plasmonlike excitations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions T. L. Trueman pp. 2125-2128 [View Page Images , PDF (573 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Free energy of a four-dimensional chiral bag M. De Francia, H. Falomir, and E. M. Santangelo pp. 2129-2139 [View Page Images , PDF (1215 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Inflation and the decaying cosmological constant Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Yasunori Fujii pp. 2140-2143 [View Page Images , PDF (575 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Physical properties of a soliton black hole at finite temperature Rong-Shi Pan and Ru-Keng Su pp. 2144-2146 [View Page Images , PDF (408 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Naked singularities in non-self-similar gravitational collapse of radiation shells P. S. Joshi and I. H. Dwivedi pp. 2147-2150 [View Page Images , PDF (597 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamics of event horizons in (2+1)-dimensional gravity B. Reznik pp. 2151-2154 [View Page Images , PDF (683 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical mass generation in de Sitter space R. L. Davis pp. 2155-2157 [View Page Images , PDF (373 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum corrections to the bosonic-string spectrum E. C. Marino and F. I. Takakura pp. 2158-2161 [View Page Images , PDF (386 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermion determinant for the generalized Schwinger model Sebastião A. Dias and Cesar A. Linhares pp. 2162-2164 [View Page Images , PDF (296 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical supersymmetry breaking and asymptotic freedom in non-Abelian gauge theories H. Zhang pp. 2165-2167 [View Page Images , PDF (538 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon-photon scattering contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon Mark A. Samuel pp. 2168-2169 [View Page Images , PDF (310 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Real-time, directional measurement of 8B solar neutrinos in the Kamiokande II detector K. S. Hirata et al. pp. 2170 [View Page Images or PDF (40 kB) ]