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Fluctuation-dissipation formula for bubble-wall velocity S. Yu. Khlebnikov pp. R3223-R3226 [View Page Images , PDF (736 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitational memory? John D. Barrow pp. R3227-R3230 [View Page Images , PDF (669 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Is general relativity an "already parametrized" theory? C. G. Torre pp. R3231-R3234 [View Page Images , PDF (721 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

N=2 (4) string theory is self-dual N=4 Yang-Mills theory W. Siegel pp. R3235-R3238 [View Page Images , PDF (612 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Search for localized γ-ray sources along the galactic plane by an airborne experiment R. Enomoto, J. Chiba, K. Ogawa, T. Sumiyoshi, F. Takasaki, and T. Kifune (VEGA Collaboration) pp. 3239-3247 [View Page Images , PDF (1324 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Search for compact sources of cosmic photons above 200 TeV D. P. Ciampa, J. Kolodziejczak, K. D. Green, J. Matthews, D. Nitz, D. Sinclair, G. Thornton, J. C. van der Velde, G. L. Cassiday, R. Cooper, S. C. Corbato, B. R. Dawson, J. W. Elbert, B. E. Fick, D. B. Kieda, S. Ko, D. F. Liebing, E. C. Loh, M. H. Salamon, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, S. B. Thomas, and B. Wheeler pp. 3248-3255 [View Page Images , PDF (1197 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutrino emissivity from e- synchrotron and e-e+ annihilation processes in a strong magnetic field: General formalism and nonrelativistic limit A. D. Kaminker, K. P. Levenfish, D. G. Yakovlev, P. Amsterdamski, and P. Haensel pp. 3256-3264 [View Page Images , PDF (1297 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Straight strings and Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes W. G. Unruh pp. 3265-3270 [View Page Images , PDF (922 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal bath and decoherence of Rindler spacetimes W. G. Unruh pp. 3271-3277 [View Page Images , PDF (759 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Massive Majorana neutrinos in prebounce supernovae Srubabati Goswami, Kamales Kar, and Amitava Raychaudhuri pp. 3278-3289 [View Page Images , PDF (1605 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bulk viscosity of strange quark matter, damping of quark star vibration, and the maximum rotation rate of pulsars Jes Madsen pp. 3290-3295 [View Page Images , PDF (810 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of radiation near the black-hole horizon and the second law of thermodynamics Li-Xin Li and Liao Liu pp. 3296-3301 [View Page Images , PDF (789 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum fermion hair Ruth Gregory and Jeffrey A. Harvey pp. 3302-3308 [View Page Images , PDF (1032 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of relaxing grand-unification assumptions on neutralinos in the minimal supersymmetric model Kim Griest and Leszek Roszkowski pp. 3309-3317 [View Page Images , PDF (1611 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmic microwave background anisotropies from plausible double inflation J. N. Fry and Yun Wang pp. 3318-3321 [View Page Images , PDF (554 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-mass current-carrying cosmic strings Patrick Peter pp. 3322-3334 [View Page Images , PDF (1880 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of the electric coupling strength in current-carrying cosmic strings Patrick Peter pp. 3335-3349 [View Page Images , PDF (2017 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chaotic dark matter Raghavan Rangarajan and Mark Srednicki pp. 3350-3351 [View Page Images , PDF (359 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonmetrical description of cosmological perturbations Martin Schön pp. 3352-3359 [View Page Images , PDF (1183 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local gauge-invariant cosmological perturbations J. C. Magueijo pp. 3360-3371 [View Page Images , PDF (1775 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium neutrino statistical mechanics in the expanding Universe Scott Dodelson and Michael S. Turner pp. 3372-3387 [View Page Images , PDF (2395 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum polarization of scalar and spinor fields near closed null geodesics Gunnar Klinkhammer pp. 3388-3394 [View Page Images , PDF (1285 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gödel's gravitomagnet Daniel Wilkins and Mark W. Jacobs pp. 3395-3402 [View Page Images , PDF (1201 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum mechanics of conformally and minimally coupled Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology Sang Pyo Kim pp. 3403-3434 [View Page Images , PDF (4495 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Information loss and anomalous scattering Amanda Peet, Leonard Susskind, and Lárus Thorlacius pp. 3435-3443 [View Page Images , PDF (1138 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	End point of Hawking radiation Jorge G. Russo, Leonard Susskind, and Lárus Thorlacius pp. 3444-3449 [View Page Images , PDF (934 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bremsstrahlung and Fulling-Davies-Unruh thermal bath A. Higuchi, G. E. Matsas, and D. Sudarsky pp. 3450-3457 [View Page Images , PDF (1177 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polyhedral cosmic strings J. S. Dowker and Peter Chang pp. 3458-3464 [View Page Images , PDF (1173 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Curved-spacetime graviton vertex operator in string theory M. A. Ahmed pp. 3465-3482 [View Page Images , PDF (1659 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Virasoro invariance and theory of internal string Y. M. Cho and S. W. Zoh pp. 3483-3502 [View Page Images , PDF (3061 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Null vectors in super Virasoro representations of the superconformal algebra Chao-Shang Huang, De-Hai Zhang, and Qing-Rong Zheng pp. 3503-3507 [View Page Images , PDF (470 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cascade model: A solvable field theory Charles B. Chiu, E. C. Sudarshan, and G. Bhamathi pp. 3508-3528 [View Page Images , PDF (2237 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	g=2 as the natural value of the tree-level gyromagnetic ratio of elementary particles Sergio Ferrara, Massimo Porrati, and Valentine L. Telegdi pp. 3529-3537 [View Page Images , PDF (1223 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sine-Gordon model and the small k+ region of light-cone perturbation theory Paul A. Griffin pp. 3538-3543 [View Page Images , PDF (966 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero modes of the nonrelativistic SU(2) Chern-Simons solitons Sung Ku Kim, Wuk Namgung, Kwang Sup Soh, and Jae Hyung Yee pp. 3544-3549 [View Page Images , PDF (572 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multi-instantons at high energies: Premature unitarization and supercritical behavior Michele Maggiore and Mikhail Shifman pp. 3550-3564 [View Page Images , PDF (2650 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of scattering with the light-cone two-body equation in φ3 theorics Chueng-Ryong Ji and Yohanes Surya pp. 3565-3575 [View Page Images , PDF (1325 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resolving the unitary gauge puzzle of thermal phase transitions Peter Arnold, Eric Braaten, and Stamatis Vokos pp. 3576-3586 [View Page Images , PDF (1561 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sphalerons at finite mixing angle Jutta Kunz, Burkhard Kleihaus, and Yves Brihaye pp. 3587-3600 [View Page Images , PDF (1911 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intermediate scales of symmetry breaking in Calabi-Yau models M. Masip pp. 3601-3606 [View Page Images , PDF (1006 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QCD thermodynamics with eight staggered quark flavors on a 163×6 lattice Seyong Kim and Shigemi Ohta pp. 3607-3617 [View Page Images , PDF (1554 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Towards the chiral limit with dynamical blocked Wilson fermions I. Barbour, E. Laermann, Th. Lippert, and K. Schilling pp. 3618-3629 [View Page Images , PDF (1840 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-temperature radiative corrections to Compton scattering S. Varma pp. 3630-3639 [View Page Images , PDF (950 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static quark-antiquark potential for the Nambu-Goto string occupied by Bose or Fermi fields G. German, M. Lynker, and A. Macǐas pp. 3640-3644 [View Page Images , PDF (577 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Macroscopic model of confinement Jiří Hošek pp. 3645-3648 [View Page Images , PDF (583 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent states and other basic states of quantum electrodynamics formulated in the loop space G. M. Buendía and A. Trías pp. 3649-3654 [View Page Images , PDF (690 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	There is a big-bubble problem in extended inflation Andrew R. Liddle and David Wands pp. 3655-3658 [View Page Images , PDF (620 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rigidly rotating cosmic strings Franz Embacher pp. 3659-3662 [View Page Images , PDF (481 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-loop threshold correction to the coupling of the antisymmetric tensor field and the Chern-Simons term in string theory H. S. Li and K. T. Mahanthappa pp. 3663-3666 [View Page Images , PDF (500 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-temperature partition function of the rigid string Joseph Polchinski and Zhu Yang pp. 3667-3669 [View Page Images , PDF (438 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure in thermal scalar field theory to three-loop order J. Frenkel, A. V. Saa, and J. C. Taylor pp. 3670-3673 [View Page Images , PDF (432 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Remark on the effective action of three-dimensional QED at finite temperature Won-Tae Kim, Young-Jai Park, Kee Yong Kim, and Yongduk Kim pp. 3674-3675 [View Page Images , PDF (196 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Free vector propagator in the light-cone gauge and the Mandelstam-Leibbrandt prescription A. Bassetto pp. 3676-3677 [View Page Images , PDF (227 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface tension in SU(3) at finite temperature Nelson A. Alves pp. 3678-3681 [View Page Images , PDF (665 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraints on sterile neutrinos from SN 1987A Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya and Raj Gandhi pp. 3682-3685 [View Page Images , PDF (641 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]