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Dilaton black holes near the horizon Renata Kallosh and Amanda Peet pp. R5223-R5227 [View Page Images , PDF (913 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Bogomol'nyi equations in the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs system B. S. Balakrishna and Kameshwar C. Wali pp. R5228-R5231 [View Page Images , PDF (631 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stability of electroweak strings Margaret James, Leandros Perivolaropoulos, and Tanmay Vachaspati pp. R5232-R5235 [View Page Images , PDF (534 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Detection, measurement, and gravitational radiation Lee S. Finn pp. 5236-5249 [View Page Images , PDF (2014 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring the stochastic gravitational-radiation background with laser-interferometric antennas Nelson Christensen pp. 5250-5266 [View Page Images , PDF (2747 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inertial and noninertial particle detectors and vacuum fluctuations B. F. Svaiter and N. F. Svaiter pp. 5267-5277 [View Page Images , PDF (1434 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetry as a cosmic censor Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Tomás Ortín, Amanda Peet, and Antoine Van Proeyen pp. 5278-5302 [View Page Images , PDF (4521 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear noise in cosmology Salman Habib and Henry E. Kandrup pp. 5303-5314 [View Page Images , PDF (2029 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended inflation from Kaluza-Klein theories A. S. Majumdar and S. K. Sethi pp. 5315-5320 [View Page Images , PDF (786 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling in the presence of gravity Aiqun Wu pp. 5321-5330 [View Page Images , PDF (1469 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electroweak baryogenesis in left-right-symmetric models R. N. Mohapatra and X. Zhang pp. 5331-5336 [View Page Images , PDF (954 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum density fluctuations in extended chaotic inflation Nathalie Deruelle, Carsten Gundlach, and David Langlois pp. 5337-5345 [View Page Images , PDF (1412 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Primordial magnetic fields from pseudo Goldstone bosons W. Daniel Garretson, George B. Field, and Sean M. Carroll pp. 5346-5351 [View Page Images , PDF (1053 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metastable cosmic strings in realistic models Richard Holman, Stephen Hsu, Tanmay Vachaspati, and Richard Watkins pp. 5352-5359 [View Page Images , PDF (1403 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Violations of the strong energy condition for interacting systems of particles Henry E. Kandrup pp. 5360-5366 [View Page Images , PDF (1159 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wormhole formation in numerical cosmology Yasusada Nambu and Masaru Siino pp. 5367-5377 [View Page Images , PDF (1268 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium effect of the neutrino distribution on primordial helium synthesis A. D. Dolgov and M. Fukugita pp. 5378-5382 [View Page Images , PDF (624 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional black hole physics Valery P. Frolov pp. 5383-5394 [View Page Images , PDF (1740 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-3 / 2 perturbations of the Kerr-Newman solution G. F. del Castillo and G. Silva-Ortigoza pp. 5395-5398 [View Page Images , PDF (520 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Horizons inside classical lumps David Kastor and Jennie Traschen pp. 5399-5403 [View Page Images , PDF (810 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local gravitomagnetic perturbations of the lunar orbit Bahman Shahid-Saless pp. 5404-5406 [View Page Images , PDF (509 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase evolution of the photon in Kerr spacetime Paolo Carini, Long Long Feng, Miao Li, and Remo Ruffini pp. 5407-5413 [View Page Images , PDF (965 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dirac equation is separable on the dyon black hole metric İbrahim Semiz pp. 5414-5420 [View Page Images , PDF (774 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Induced Einstein-Kalb-Ramond theory in four dimensions W. F. Kao pp. 5421-5428 [View Page Images , PDF (1259 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum black holes in two dimensions S. P. de Alwis pp. 5429-5438 [View Page Images , PDF (1442 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum collapse of a self-gravitating shell: Equivalence to Coulomb scattering Petr Hájíček, Bernard S. Kay, and Karel V. Kuchař pp. 5439-5448 [View Page Images , PDF (1727 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-loop Vilkovisky-Dewitt counterterms for two-dimensional gravity plus scalar field theory R. Kantowski and Caren Marzban pp. 5449-5457 [View Page Images , PDF (1101 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalies in curved spacetime at finite temperature H. Boschi-Filho and C. P. Natividade pp. 5458-5466 [View Page Images , PDF (1184 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On background-independent open-string field theory Edward Witten pp. 5467-5473 [View Page Images , PDF (1171 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonrelativistic field-theoretic scale anomaly Oren Bergman pp. 5474-5478 [View Page Images , PDF (663 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization of Tamm-Dancoff integral equations Brett van de Sande and Stephen S. Pinsky pp. 5479-5486 [View Page Images , PDF (1229 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum kinks: Solitons at strong coupling Stephen G. Naculich pp. 5487-5496 [View Page Images , PDF (1422 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solving two-dimensional φ4 field (complex scalar) theory by discretized light-front quantization S. N. Ghosh pp. 5497-5503 [View Page Images , PDF (867 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Investigating decoherence in a simple system Andreas Albrecht pp. 5504-5520 [View Page Images , PDF (2892 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-loop analysis of non-Abelian Chern-Simons theory Wei Chen, Gordon W. Semenoff, and Yong-Shi Wu pp. 5521-5539 [View Page Images , PDF (2748 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QED vacuum polarization on a momentum lattice H. Kröger, R. Lafrance, and L. Marleau pp. 5540-5549 [View Page Images , PDF (1102 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trace identities and analytical evaluation of the functional determinants A. I. Bochkarev pp. 5550-5556 [View Page Images , PDF (1072 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Almost zero-dimensional quantum field theories Carl M. Bender, Stefan Boettcher, and Lev Lipatov pp. 5557-5573 [View Page Images , PDF (2188 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transversally confined, noncausal gluons H. M. Fried pp. 5574-5589 [View Page Images , PDF (2663 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral bosons coupled to Liouville gravity in the Faddeev-Jackiw formalism N. Banerjee, D. Chatterjee, and Subir Ghosh pp. 5590-5597 [View Page Images , PDF (980 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum fields in the Schwinger model A. V. Smilga pp. 5598-5606 [View Page Images , PDF (1426 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectrum of Dirac operator and role of winding number in QCD H. Leutwyler and A. Smilga pp. 5607-5632 [View Page Images , PDF (4945 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second-order electron mass dispersion relation at finite temperature. II. Mahnaz Qader, Samina S. Masood, and K. Ahmed pp. 5633-5647 [View Page Images , PDF (1274 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface tension and chiral order parameter profile with dynamical quarks M. Hackel, M. Faber, H. Markum, and M. Müller pp. 5648-5654 [View Page Images , PDF (1022 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice QCD with eight Hght-quark flavors Frank R. Brown, Hong Chen, Norman H. Christ, Zhihua Dong, Robert D. Mawhinney, Wendy Schaffer, and Alessandro Vaccarino pp. 5655-5670 [View Page Images , PDF (2762 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Three-dimensional QED with four-fermion interactions at finite temperature Sin Kyu Kang and Jae Kwan Kim pp. 5671-5674 [View Page Images , PDF (523 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Singularity-free decaying-vacuum cosmologies: Evolution of density perturbations T. M. Abdalla and A-M. M. Abdel-Rahman pp. 5675-5677 [View Page Images , PDF (317 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mass dependence of the deconfinement transition for a Nambu-Goto string occupied by scalar fields G. Germán and M. Lynker pp. 5678-5681 [View Page Images , PDF (523 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on "Exact solutions of Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with arbitrary potential" D. L. Wiltshire pp. 5682-5684 [View Page Images , PDF (402 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]