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Ashtekar's variables for arbitrary gauge group Peter Peldán pp. R2279-R2282 [View Page Images , PDF (580 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

New test of the equivalence principle for the antiproton R. J. Hughes pp. R2283-R2286 [View Page Images , PDF (635 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semilocal self-dual Chern-Simons vortices Avinash Khare pp. R2287-R2289 [View Page Images , PDF (380 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Explicit construction of massive spin-two fields in Kaluza-Klein theory Y. M. Cho and S. W. Zoh pp. R2290-R2294 [View Page Images , PDF (758 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Bogomol'nyi limit for nontopological solitons in a Chern-Simons model with anomalous magnetic moment Manuel Torres pp. R2295-R2298 [View Page Images , PDF (587 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Comparative performance of two-, three-, and four-mode gravitational radiation detectors N. Solomonson, W. W. Johnson, and W. O. Hamilton pp. 2299-2308 [View Page Images , PDF (1601 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Approaching the quantum limit with optically instrumented multimode gravitational-wave bar detectors J. -P. Richard pp. 2309-2317 [View Page Images , PDF (1461 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Close black-hole binary systems James Kent Blackburn and Steven Detweiler pp. 2318-2333 [View Page Images , PDF (2448 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical mechanics of black holes B. Harms and Y. Leblanc pp. 2334-2340 [View Page Images , PDF (1131 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraints on radiative decay of the 17-keV neutrino from COBE measurements Biman B. Nath pp. 2341-2344 [View Page Images , PDF (511 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleation of thick topological defects during inflation Rama Basu and Alexander Vilenkin pp. 2345-2354 [View Page Images , PDF (1358 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Did the Universe have a beginning? Alexander Vilenkin pp. 2355-2361 [View Page Images , PDF (1282 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraints on radiative decay of massive neutrinos Boqi Wang pp. 2362-2365 [View Page Images , PDF (633 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal history of the string universe Hideyuki Câteau and Kosuke Sumiyoshi pp. 2366-2380 [View Page Images , PDF (2486 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytic study of self-intersections in the Turok two-parameter family of cosmic strings Franz Embacher pp. 2381-2383 [View Page Images , PDF (395 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bubble nucleation in first-order inflation and other cosmological phase transitions Michael S. Turner, Erick J. Weinberg, and Lawrence M. Widrow pp. 2384-2403 [View Page Images , PDF (3685 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmological consequences of a time-dependent Λ term J. C. Carvalho, J. A. Lima, and I. Waga pp. 2404-2407 [View Page Images , PDF (558 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic inflation: Quantum phase-space approach Salman Habib pp. 2408-2427 [View Page Images , PDF (2974 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle creation for time travel through a wormhole Sung-Won Kim pp. 2428-2434 [View Page Images , PDF (1044 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotation halts cylindrical, relativistic gravitational collapse Theocharis A. Apostolatos and Kip S. Thorne pp. 2435-2444 [View Page Images , PDF (1775 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dirty black holes: Thermodynamics and horizon structure Matt Visser pp. 2445-2451 [View Page Images , PDF (1078 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum initial data, singularities, and cosmic censorship Andrew M. Abrahams, Karen R. Heiderich, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Saul A. Teukolsky pp. 2452-2463 [View Page Images , PDF (2006 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lorentzian wormholes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory Biplab Bhawal and Sayan Kar pp. 2464-2468 [View Page Images , PDF (756 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wormholes and supersymmetry J. R. Anglin and R. C. Myers pp. 2469-2479 [View Page Images , PDF (1593 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ising model coupled to three-dimensional quantum gravity C. F. Baillie pp. 2480-2485 [View Page Images , PDF (957 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum emission from two-dimensional black holes Steven B. Giddings and William M. Nelson pp. 2486-2496 [View Page Images , PDF (1567 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Emergence of radiation from gravitational potential wells: The absence of ωM effects Richard H. Price and Jorge Pullin pp. 2497-2506 [View Page Images , PDF (1714 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signal analysis of the post-Newtonian gravitational wave form of coalescing binaries Kanti Jotania, Sanjay M. Wagh, and Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar pp. 2507-2516 [View Page Images , PDF (1480 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear-order stability of the gravitational plane-wave Cauchy horizons Gregory A. Burnett pp. 2517-2521 [View Page Images , PDF (854 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signatures of black holes in string theory Metin Gürses pp. 2522-2526 [View Page Images , PDF (704 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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The quantized O(1,2)/O(2)×Z2 sigma model has no continuum limit in four dimensions. I. Theoretical framework Jorge L. deLyra, Bryce DeWitt, See Kit Foong, T. E. Gallivan, Rob Harrington, Arie Kapulkin, Eric Myers, and Joseph Polchinski pp. 2527-2537 [View Page Images , PDF (1514 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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The quantized O(1,2) / O(2)×Z2 sigma model has no continuum limit in four dimensions. II. Lattice simulation Jorge L. deLyra, Bryce DeWitt, See Kit Foong, T. E. Gallivan, Rob Harrington, Arie Kapulkin, Eric Myers, and Joseph Polchinski pp. 2538-2552 [View Page Images , PDF (2131 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero modes, Euclideanization, and quantization A. Folacci pp. 2553-2559 [View Page Images , PDF (974 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic regularization of the quantum stress-energy tensor in curved spacetimes: Stochastic quantization method Wung-Hong Huang pp. 2560-2569 [View Page Images , PDF (1190 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	δ expansion of models with chiral-symmetry breaking Sunil K. Gandhi and Marcus B. Pinto pp. 2570-2577 [View Page Images , PDF (1026 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QED in a unified axial-gauge formalism with a general gauge parameter George Leibbrandt and K. Allan Richardson pp. 2578-2584 [View Page Images , PDF (630 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical λφ4 theory in 3 + 1 dimensions H. Goldberg, D. Nash, and M. T. Vaughn pp. 2585-2593 [View Page Images , PDF (1295 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetry, naturalness, and dynamical supersymmetry breaking Michael Dine and Douglas A. MacIntire pp. 2594-2601 [View Page Images , PDF (1508 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On-shell expansion of effective action and quark-line diagrams in quantum chromodynamics M. Komachiya and R. Fukuda pp. 2602-2616 [View Page Images , PDF (1984 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1 / N expansion of the nonlinear σ model and its renormalization through stochastic quantization J. C. Brunelli and M. Gomes pp. 2617-2627 [View Page Images , PDF (1157 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transition temperatures at next-to-leading order Peter Arnold pp. 2628-2635 [View Page Images , PDF (1046 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static quark-antiquark potential: Scaling behavior and finite-size effects in SU(3) lattice gauge theory G. S. Bali and K. Schilling pp. 2636-2646 [View Page Images , PDF (1270 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo simulation of CPN-1 models Massimo Campostrini, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari pp. 2647-2662 [View Page Images , PDF (2674 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generating fermion mass in four-dimensional quenched QED D. C. Curtis and M. R. Pennington pp. 2663-2667 [View Page Images , PDF (672 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bubble nucleation and growth at a baryon-number-producing electroweak phase transition Bao Hua Liu, Larry McLerran, and Neil Turok pp. 2668-2688 [View Page Images , PDF (3470 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal effects and the effective action of quantum electrodynamics M. Loewe and J. C. Rojas pp. 2689-2694 [View Page Images , PDF (613 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon polarization tensor and gauge dependence in three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics Conrad J. Burden, Justin Praschifka, and Craig D. Roberts pp. 2695-2702 [View Page Images , PDF (1181 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface tension of nucleating hadrons using the free energy of an isolated quark R. Brower, S. Huang, J. Potvin, and C. Rebbi pp. 2703-2708 [View Page Images , PDF (929 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stationary solutions to the gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation Kyung Hyun Cho, Dong-Hwa Oh, and Chaiho Rim pp. 2709-2713 [View Page Images , PDF (704 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state energy of nanyons Avinash Khare, John McCabe, and Stéphane Ouvry pp. 2714-2719 [View Page Images , PDF (889 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Conditions for the existence of closed timelike curves in 2+1 gravity Daniel N. Kabat pp. 2720-2722 [View Page Images , PDF (392 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time evolution of self-similar scalar soliton stars: A general study J. M. Aguirregabiria, A. Di Prisco, L. Herrera, and J. Ibáñez pp. 2723-2725 [View Page Images , PDF (377 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Averaged-null-energy condition for electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime A. Folacci pp. 2726-2729 [View Page Images , PDF (494 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BRST formulation of Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled to matter fields Hyeonjoon Shin, Won-Tae Kim, Jae-Kwan Kim, and Young-Jai Park pp. 2730-2733 [View Page Images , PDF (462 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Faddeev-Jackiw quantization of Siegel's chiral oscillator Clovis Wotzasek pp. 2734-2736 [View Page Images , PDF (395 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical symmetry breaking and phase transitions in a three-dimensional Gross-Neveu model in a strong magnetic field I. V. Krive and S. A. Naftulin pp. 2737-2740 [View Page Images , PDF (444 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: CPN-1 models in the 1 / N expansion Massimo Campostrini and Paolo Rossi pp. 2741-2742 [View Page Images or PDF (59 kB) ]