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Trapping a geon: Black hole formation by an imploding gravitational wave Andrew M. Abrahams and Charles R. Evans pp. R4117-R4121 [View Page Images , PDF (836 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations for the exterior gravitational field of a magnetized rotating mass V. S. Manko and N. R. Sibgatullin pp. R4122-R4124 [View Page Images , PDF (362 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Summing tree graphs at threshold Lowell S. Brown pp. R4125-R4127 [View Page Images , PDF (446 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Testing local Lorentz invariance of gravity with binary-pulsar data Thibault Damour and Gilles Esposito-Farèse pp. 4128-4132 [View Page Images , PDF (790 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino emissivity from e-e+ annihilation in a strong magnetic field: Hot, nondegenerate plasma A. D. Kaminker, O. Yu. Gnedin, D. G. Yakovlev, P. Amsterdamski, and P. Haensel pp. 4133-4139 [View Page Images , PDF (975 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Standard model contributions to the neutrino index of refraction in the early Universe Paul Langacker and Jiang Liu pp. 4140-4160 [View Page Images , PDF (2452 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Limiting rotational period of neutron stars Norman K. Glendenning pp. 4161-4168 [View Page Images , PDF (1544 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamics of charged black holes attached to cosmic strings C. F. Lee pp. 4169-4178 [View Page Images , PDF (1207 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasinormal modes of a Schwarzschild black hole: Improved phase-integral treatment Nils Andersson and Staffan Linnæus pp. 4179-4187 [View Page Images , PDF (1405 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon/proton ratio as a diagnostic tool for topological defects as the sources of extremely high-energy cosmic rays Felix A. Aharonian, Pijushpani Bhattacharjee, and David N. Schramm pp. 4188-4192 [View Page Images , PDF (991 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Minimal anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background E. Martínez-González, J. L. Sanz, and Joseph Silk pp. 4193-4197 [View Page Images , PDF (705 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Contribution of long-wavelength gravitational waves to the cosmic microwave background anisotropy Martin White pp. 4198-4205 [View Page Images , PDF (1239 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistics of baryon isocurvature perturbations in the inflationary universe Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Michiyasu Nagasawa, Misao Sasaki, Hiroshi Suzuki, and Jun’ ichi Yokoyama pp. 4206-4217 [View Page Images , PDF (1557 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semilocal defects John Preskill pp. 4218-4231 [View Page Images , PDF (2709 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dependence of density perturbations on the coupling constant in a simple model of inflation Toby Falk, Raghavan Rangarajan, and Mark Srednicki pp. 4232-4234 [View Page Images , PDF (374 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical corrections to thermal activation Edward W. Kolb and Igor I. Tkachev pp. 4235-4241 [View Page Images , PDF (1123 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical systems approach to titled Bianchi cosmologies: Irrotational models of type V C. G. Hewitt and J. Wainwright pp. 4242-4252 [View Page Images , PDF (1807 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On the Rácz and Szabados constructions of the c-boundary Kuang zhiquan and Liang canbin pp. 4253-4256 [View Page Images , PDF (634 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BRST cohomology and invariants of four-dimensional gravity in Ashtekar variables Lay Nam Chang and Chopin Soo pp. 4257-4262 [View Page Images , PDF (893 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ashtekar’s variables reexamined R. P. Wallner pp. 4263-4285 [View Page Images , PDF (3489 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black string traveling waves David Garfinkle pp. 4286-4288 [View Page Images , PDF (278 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equations governing the nonradial oscillations of a slowly rotating relativistic star Yasufumi Kojima pp. 4289-4303 [View Page Images , PDF (1462 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hereditary effects in gravitational radiation Luc Blanchet and Thibault Damour pp. 4304-4319 [View Page Images , PDF (2585 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbative formalism of Lovelock gravity G. A. Mena Marugán pp. 4320-4339 [View Page Images , PDF (3387 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamically generated four-dimensional models in Lovelock cosmology G. A. Marugán pp. 4340-4354 [View Page Images , PDF (2395 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	No-boundary θ sectors in spatially flat quantum cosmology Domenico Giulini and Jorma Louko pp. 4355-4364 [View Page Images , PDF (1942 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum cosmology of openR×S2×S1 John Uglum pp. 4365-4372 [View Page Images , PDF (1218 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Towards a quantum theory of long-wavelength gravity D. S. Salopek pp. 4373-4386 [View Page Images , PDF (2098 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy versus action in the (2 + 1)-dimensional Hartle-Hawking wave function S. Carlip pp. 4387-4395 [View Page Images , PDF (1610 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Faddeev-Popov ghosts and (1 + 1)-dimensional black-hole evaporation Andrew Strominger pp. 4396-4401 [View Page Images , PDF (967 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum wormhole states and local supersymmetry L. J. Alty, P. D. D’Eath, and H. F. Dowker pp. 4402-4412 [View Page Images , PDF (1427 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge-independent effective potential for minimally coupled quantum fields in curved space J. Balakrishnan and D. J. Toms pp. 4413-4420 [View Page Images , PDF (962 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum field theory in spaces with closed timelike curves David G. Boulware pp. 4421-4441 [View Page Images , PDF (2957 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unitarity of interacting fields in curved spacetime John L. Friedman, Nicolas J. Papastamatiou, and Jonathan Z. Simon pp. 4442-4455 [View Page Images , PDF (1703 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Failure of unitarity for interacting fields on spacetimes with closed timelike curves John L. Friedman, Nicolas J. Papastamatiou, and Jonathan Z. Simon pp. 4456-4469 [View Page Images , PDF (2180 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple quantum systems in spacetimes with closed timelike curves H. David Politzer pp. 4470-4476 [View Page Images , PDF (976 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbiting cross sections: Application to black hole scattering P. Anninos, C. DeWitt-Morette, R. A. Matzner, P. Yioutas, and T. R. Zhang pp. 4477-4494 [View Page Images , PDF (2188 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global analysis of new gravitational singularities in string and particle theories I. Bars and K. Sfetsos pp. 4495-4509 [View Page Images , PDF (2584 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformally exact metric and dilation in string theory on curved spacetime I. Bars and K. Sfetsos pp. 4510-4519 [View Page Images , PDF (1333 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Curved-spacetime metric generated by Planckian energy string collisions C. O. Loustó and N. Sánchez pp. 4520-4525 [View Page Images , PDF (856 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monopoles and instantons in string theory Ramzi R. Khuri pp. 4526-4532 [View Page Images , PDF (1092 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying states of the six-dimensional fractional superstring Philip C. Argyres, Edwin Lyman, and S. -H. Tye pp. 4533-4565 [View Page Images , PDF (5893 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Macroscopic detection of negative-energy fluxes L. H. Ford, P. G. Grove, and A. C. Ottewill pp. 4566-4573 [View Page Images , PDF (1042 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral Schwinger model based on the Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky formalism Yong-Wan Kim, Seung-Kook Kim, Won-Tae Kim, Young-Jai Park, Kee Yong Kim, and Yongduk Kim pp. 4574-4579 [View Page Images , PDF (806 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound-state problem in the light-front Tamm-Dancoff approximation: Numerical study in 1 + 1 dimensions A. Harindranath, Robert J. Perry, and J. Shigemitsu pp. 4580-4602 [View Page Images , PDF (3267 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation time approximation for relativistic dense matter Rémi Hakim, Lysiane Mornas, Patrick Peter, and Horacio D. Sivak pp. 4603-4629 [View Page Images , PDF (3385 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological susceptibility on the lattice: The two-dimensional O(3) σ model Adriano Di Giacomo, Federico Farchioni, Alessandro Papa, and Ettore Vicari pp. 4630-4642 [View Page Images , PDF (1937 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological susceptibility and string tension in the lattice CPN-1 models Massimo Campostrini, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari pp. 4643-4656 [View Page Images , PDF (2095 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-temperature phase transition of SU(3) gauge theory on Nt=4 and 6 lattices Y. Iwasaki, K. Kanaya, T. Yoshié, T. Hoshino, T. Shirakawa, Y. Oyanagi, S. Ichii, and T. Kawai pp. 4657-4667 [View Page Images , PDF (1559 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multi-instanton valleys in the O(3) σ model N. Dorey pp. 4668-4676 [View Page Images , PDF (1483 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of semilocal vortices at critical coupling R. A. Leese pp. 4677-4684 [View Page Images , PDF (1223 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic instantons and quantum-mechanical tunneling at high energy Jiu-Qing Liang and H. J. Müller-Kirsten pp. 4685-4690 [View Page Images , PDF (772 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-dual Chern-Simons Higgs systems with an N=3 extended supersymmetry Hsien-Chung Kao and Kimyeong Lee pp. 4691-4697 [View Page Images , PDF (946 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Towards a unified treatment of Yang-Mills and Higgs fields: A supersymmetric extension B. S. Balakrishna, Feza Gürsey, Nguyen Ai Viet, and Kameshwar C. Wali pp. 4698-4703 [View Page Images , PDF (800 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral phase dependence of the massive fermionic path integral Hisashi Kikuchi pp. 4704-4711 [View Page Images , PDF (977 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large-order perturbation theory for the electromagnetic current-current correlation function Lowell S. Brown, Laurence G. Yaffe, and Chengxing Zhai pp. 4712-4735 [View Page Images , PDF (3419 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical study of perfect wetting in quenched QCD R. Brower, S. Huang, J. Potvin, C. Rebbi, and J. Ross pp. 4736-4740 [View Page Images , PDF (763 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QCD thermodynamics with two flavors of Wilson quarks at Nt=6 Claude Bernard, Michael C. Ogilvie, Thomas A. DeGrand, Carleton DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, Alex Krasnitz, R. L. Sugar, and D. Toussaint pp. 4741-4748 [View Page Images , PDF (1163 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Screening of static QED electric fields in hot QCD J. Irving Kapusta pp. 4749-4753 [View Page Images , PDF (782 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Diquark abundance in stellar matter J. E. Horvath, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, and J. C. de Araújo pp. 4754-4757 [View Page Images , PDF (519 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Midisuperspace-induced corrections to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation Francisco D. Mazzitelli pp. 4758-4760 [View Page Images , PDF (454 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective model for crumpling in two dimensions? C. F. Baillie and D. A. Johnston pp. 4761-4764 [View Page Images , PDF (687 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modular properties of scalar field theories in three dimensions Kazuto Oshima pp. 4765-4767 [View Page Images , PDF (318 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-dual Chern-Simons solitons in (2 + 1)-dimensional Einstein gravity D. Cangemi and Choonkyu Lee pp. 4768-4771 [View Page Images , PDF (543 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Remarks on Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory at finite temperature M. T. Thomaz pp. 4772-4774 [View Page Images , PDF (269 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalar top-quark condensation during the electroweak phase transition Marc Sher pp. 4775-4778 [View Page Images , PDF (776 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘High-temperature fermion propagator: Resummation and gauge dependence of the damping rate’’ Anton Rebhan pp. 4779-4781 [View Page Images , PDF (489 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Bethe-Salpeter equation: Spin-0-spin-½ and spin-0-spin-0 bound states David A. Owen pp. 4782 [View Page Images or PDF (69 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Improved analytic theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment Mark A. Samuel and Guowen Li pp. 4782 [View Page Images or PDF (69 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Symmetries of the classical path integral on a generalized phase-space manifold E. Gozzi, M. Reuter, and W. D. Thacker pp. 4782 [View Page Images or PDF (69 kB) ]