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Black hole solutions in generalized two-dimensional dilaton-gravity theories S. Mignemi pp. R4733-R4736 [View Page Images , PDF (499 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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•	Optimal reconstruction of the input signal in resonant gravitational wave detectors: Data processing algorithm and physical limitations A. Ortolan, G. Vedovato, M. Cerdonio, and S. Vitale pp. 4737-4743 [View Page Images , PDF (1030 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Axion detection in the 10-4 eV mass range Pierre Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, and Yun Wang pp. 4744-4748 [View Page Images , PDF (662 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrinos from the Sun: Experimental results confronted with solar models V. Castellani, S. Degl’Innocenti, G. Fiorentini, M. Lissia, and B. Ricci pp. 4749-4761 [View Page Images , PDF (1935 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino oscillations in noisy media F. N. Loreti and A. B. Balantekin pp. 4762-4770 [View Page Images , PDF (1257 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strange matter lumps in the early Universe Su Jin Cho, Kang Seog Lee, and Ulrich Heinz pp. 4771-4780 [View Page Images , PDF (2021 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat of superfluid matter in the inner crust of neutron stars R. A. Broglia, F. De Blasio, G. Lazzari, M. Lazzari, and P. M. Pizzochero pp. 4781-4785 [View Page Images , PDF (739 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boulware state and the generalized second law of thermodynamics Warren G. Anderson pp. 4786-4790 [View Page Images , PDF (878 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmic strings on a harmonic map and the gravitational lens effect M. Gogberashvili pp. 4791-4793 [View Page Images , PDF (382 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Method of generating exact inflationary solutions Franz E. Schunck and Eckehard W. Mielke pp. 4794-4806 [View Page Images , PDF (1656 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inflation and squeezed quantum states Andreas Albrecht, Pedro Ferreira, Michael Joyce, and Tomislav Prokopec pp. 4807-4820 [View Page Images , PDF (2164 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collapse of axionic domain wall and axion emission Michiyasu Nagasawa and Masahiro Kawasaki pp. 4821-4826 [View Page Images , PDF (858 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of double-inflationary models with observations Patrick Peter, David Polarski, and A. A. Starobinsky pp. 4827-4834 [View Page Images , PDF (1426 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Blue perturbation spectra from inflation Silvia Mollerach, Sabino Matarrese, and Francesco Lucchin pp. 4835-4841 [View Page Images , PDF (1105 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple way of calculating the cosmological relic density Leszek Roszkowski pp. 4842-4845 [View Page Images , PDF (475 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Primordial bubbles from quadratic gravity Franco Occhionero and Luca Amendola pp. 4846-4852 [View Page Images , PDF (1203 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black hole relics and inflation: Limits on blue perturbation spectra B. J. Carr, J. H. Gilbert, and James E. Lidsey pp. 4853-4867 [View Page Images , PDF (2557 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low energy effective string cosmology E. J. Copeland, Amitabha Lahiri, and David Wands pp. 4868-4880 [View Page Images , PDF (1847 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quark-hadron phase transition, QCD lattice calculations, and inhomogeneous big-bang nucleosynthesis A. A. Coley and T. Trappenberg pp. 4881-4885 [View Page Images , PDF (972 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instability of anti–de Sitter spacetime Jian-Mei Xu, Li-Xin Li, and Liao Liu pp. 4886-4889 [View Page Images , PDF (413 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decaying Λ cosmologies and power spectrum V. Silveira and I. Waga pp. 4890-4894 [View Page Images , PDF (780 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational lens time delays and gravitational waves Joshua A. Frieman, Diego D. Harari, and Gabriela C. Surpi pp. 4895-4902 [View Page Images , PDF (1474 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmic hoop conjecture? Takeshi Chiba and Kei-ichi Maeda pp. 4903-4913 [View Page Images , PDF (1313 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is the gravitational action additive? Dieter Brill and Geoff Hayward pp. 4914-4919 [View Page Images , PDF (962 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasilocal energy for a Kerr black hole Erik A. Martinez pp. 4920-4928 [View Page Images , PDF (1430 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic solutions of the Einstein equations for binary systems Steven Detweiler pp. 4929-4943 [View Page Images , PDF (2084 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Striking property of the gravitational Hamiltonian Abhay Ashtekar and Madhavan Varadarajan pp. 4944-4956 [View Page Images , PDF (2643 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isometries between Gott’s two-string spacetime and Grant’s generalization of Misner space Dustin Laurence pp. 4957-4965 [View Page Images , PDF (1535 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Homotopy invariants and time evolution in (2+1)-dimensional gravity Henri Waelbroeck and Federico Zertuche pp. 4966-4981 [View Page Images , PDF (2426 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Canonical quantization of (2+1)-dimensional gravity Henri Waelbroeck pp. 4982-4992 [View Page Images , PDF (2002 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determining parameters of the Neugebauer family of vacuum spacetimes in terms of data specified on the symmetry axis Frederick J. Ernst pp. 4993-4999 [View Page Images , PDF (824 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerically generated axisymmetric black hole spacetimes: Numerical methods and code tests David Bernstein, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, and John Towns pp. 5000-5024 [View Page Images , PDF (4283 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-dimensional initial data for the collision of two black holes. II. Quasicircular orbits for equal-mass black holes Gregory B. Cook pp. 5025-5032 [View Page Images , PDF (1495 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic wormholes and vertex operators Harvendra Singh pp. 5033-5038 [View Page Images , PDF (863 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Physical equivalence between nonlinear gravity theories and a general-relativistic self-gravitating scalar field Guido Magnano and Leszek M. Sokołowski pp. 5039-5059 [View Page Images , PDF (4098 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Post-Newtonian effects in the quadratic Poincaré gauge theory of gravitation M. S. Gladchenko and V. V. Zhytnikov pp. 5060-5071 [View Page Images , PDF (2035 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional Poincaré gauge gravity with matter Yuri N. Obukhov pp. 5072-5086 [View Page Images , PDF (1587 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum electromagnetic wormholes and geometrical description of the electric charge Marco Cavaglià pp. 5087-5092 [View Page Images , PDF (908 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling geometries: Analyticity, unitarity, and instantons in quantum cosmology A. O. Barvinsky and A. Yu. Kamenshchik pp. 5093-5114 [View Page Images , PDF (4166 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reduction methods for functional determinants in quantum gravity and cosmology A. O. Barvinsky pp. 5115-5124 [View Page Images , PDF (1727 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantization of 2+1 gravity for genus 2 J. E. Nelson and T. Regge pp. 5125-5129 [View Page Images , PDF (510 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Block spin renormalization group approach and two-dimensional quantum gravity Ray L. Renken pp. 5130-5136 [View Page Images , PDF (1218 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Lagrangian and the back-reaction problem in a self-interacting O(N) scalar theory in curved spacetime E. Elizalde, K. Kirsten, and S. D. Odintsov pp. 5137-5147 [View Page Images , PDF (1282 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal states in anti–de Sitter space-time and the role of timelike infinity Luciano Vanzo and Giuseppe Turco pp. 5148-5154 [View Page Images , PDF (1060 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dilaton black holes with electric charge Malik Rakhmanov pp. 5155-5163 [View Page Images , PDF (1278 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Problem of time and quantum black holes S. P. de Alwis and D. A. MacIntire pp. 5164-5176 [View Page Images , PDF (1954 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformally invariant boundary conditions for dilaton gravity Andrew Strominger and Lárus Thorlacius pp. 5177-5187 [View Page Images , PDF (1626 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black-hole–wave duality in string theory Eric Bergshoeff, Renata Kallosh, and Tomás Ortín pp. 5188-5192 [View Page Images , PDF (818 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized Penner models to all genera J. Ambjørn, C. F. Kristjansen, and Yu. Makeenko pp. 5193-5203 [View Page Images , PDF (1757 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact solutions and singularities in string theory Gary T. Horowitz and A. A. Tseytlin pp. 5204-5224 [View Page Images , PDF (3577 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite black hole entropy and string theory Michael McGuigan pp. 5225-5231 [View Page Images , PDF (1045 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strings in plane wave backgrounds reexamined O. Jofre and C. Núñez pp. 5232-5240 [View Page Images , PDF (1356 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of rotation symmetry on Abelian Chern-Simons field theory and anyon equation on a sphere N. W. Park, Chaiho Rim, and D. S. Soh pp. 5241-5251 [View Page Images , PDF (1422 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneously broken continuous symmetries in hyperbolic (or open) de Sitter spacetime Bharat Ratra pp. 5252-5261 [View Page Images , PDF (1197 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Discretized light-cone quantization of electrodynamics Alex C. Kalloniatis and David G. Robertson pp. 5262-5273 [View Page Images , PDF (1860 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional SU(N) gauge theory on the light cone Takanori Sugihara, Masayuki Matsuzaki, and Masanobu Yahiro pp. 5274-5288 [View Page Images , PDF (1932 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantization of gauge field theories on the front form without gauge constraints: The Abelian case Ovid C. Jacob pp. 5289-5295 [View Page Images , PDF (836 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	δ perturbative interactions in the Aharonov-Bohm and anyon models Stéphane Ouvry pp. 5296-5299 [View Page Images , PDF (584 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice structure of the gluon field condensate in a theory with the Chern-Simons mass V. V. Skalozub, S. A. Vilensky, and A. Yu. Zaslavsky pp. 5300-5307 [View Page Images , PDF (1314 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New dimensionally reduced effective action for QCD at high temperature Scott Chapman pp. 5308-5313 [View Page Images , PDF (647 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamics of relativistic fermions with Chern-Simons coupling N. Bralić, D. Cabra, and F. A. Schaposnik pp. 5314-5320 [View Page Images , PDF (961 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetry breaking in the Schrödinger representation for Chern-Simons theories Gerald Dunne pp. 5321-5328 [View Page Images , PDF (1043 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grand-canonical ensemble of random surfaces with four species of Ising spins J.-P. Kownacki and A. Krzywicki pp. 5329-5332 [View Page Images , PDF (782 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum tunneling with global charge Kimyeong Lee pp. 5333-5342 [View Page Images , PDF (1671 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multisphalerons in the Weinberg-Salam theory Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz pp. 5343-5351 [View Page Images , PDF (1278 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical loop actions of gauge theories D. Armand Ugon, R. Gambini, J. Griego, and L. Setaro pp. 5352-5357 [View Page Images , PDF (800 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Axial anomaly in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm gauge field Paola Giacconi, Stéphane Ouvry, and Roberto Soldati pp. 5358-5364 [View Page Images , PDF (920 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large mass limit of the continuum theories in Kaplan’s formulation Teruhiko Kawano and Yoshio Kikukawa pp. 5365-5378 [View Page Images , PDF (1500 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proximal chiral phase transition Joseph I. Kapusta and Ajit M. Srivastava pp. 5379-5388 [View Page Images , PDF (1689 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Some explorations in holomorphy Michael Dine and Yuri Shirman pp. 5389-5397 [View Page Images , PDF (1477 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	(2+1)-dimensional QED with a Chern-Simons term in the ladder approximation Won-Ho Kye and Jae Kwan Kim pp. 5398-5402 [View Page Images , PDF (684 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral current at high temperatures Ngee-Pong Chang pp. 5403-5408 [View Page Images , PDF (772 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detection of particles under a potential barrier Alexander Vilenkin and Serge Winitzki pp. 5409-5417 [View Page Images , PDF (1398 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parity violation, anyon scattering, and the mean field approximation Didier Caenepeel and Richard MacKenzie pp. 5418-5424 [View Page Images , PDF (1213 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Junction conditions of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-times Nobuyuki Sakai and Kei-ichi Maeda pp. 5425-5428 [View Page Images , PDF (488 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Toroidal magnetic field in closed Robertson-Walker cosmologies A. L. Oliveira and A. F. Teixeira pp. 5429-5430 [View Page Images , PDF (240 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical constraints on the inflation effective potential from the COBE DMR results Hannu Kurki-Suonio and Grant J. Mathews pp. 5431-5434 [View Page Images , PDF (675 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wiggly relativistic membranes Jooyoo Hong pp. 5435-5438 [View Page Images , PDF (550 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New pseudoclassical model for Weyl particles D. M. Gitman, A. E. Gonçalves, and I. V. Tyutin pp. 5439-5442 [View Page Images , PDF (673 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational approach to the spinless relativistic Coulomb problem Wolfgang Lucha and Franz F. Schöberl pp. 5443-5445 [View Page Images , PDF (379 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gell-Mann–Low equation: Relation between the fifth-order vacuum-polarization coefficients B. P. Nigam pp. 5446-5449 [View Page Images , PDF (390 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Hedgehog compactification’’ Gérard Clément pp. 5450-5451 [View Page Images , PDF (254 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ‘‘Stability of the semiclassical Einstein equation’’ Hans-Jürgen Schmidt pp. 5452 [View Page Images , PDF (204 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Response to ‘‘Comment on ‘Stability of the semiclassical Einstein equation’ ’’ Wai-Mo Suen pp. 5453-5454 [View Page Images , PDF (267 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]