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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

CBR anisotropy and the running of the scalar spectral index Arthur Kosowsky and Michael S. Turner pp. R1739-R1743 [View Page Images , PDF (797 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Supersonic string models for Witten vortices Brandon Carter and Patrick Peter pp. R1744-R1748 [View Page Images , PDF (906 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Parallel beam interferometric detectors of gravitational waves Massimo Tinto and Frank B. Estabrook pp. 1749-1754 [View Page Images , PDF (1012 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light spinless particle coupled to photons Eduard Massó and Ramon Toldrà pp. 1755-1763 [View Page Images , PDF (1573 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino decoupling in the early Universe Steen Hannestad and Jes Madsen pp. 1764-1769 [View Page Images , PDF (895 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solar neutrinos and the principle of equivalence J. N. Bahcall, P. I. Krastev, and C. N. Leung pp. 1770-1779 [View Page Images , PDF (1750 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent approach to neutral-current processes in supernova cores Georg Raffelt and David Seckel pp. 1780-1799 [View Page Images , PDF (3712 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Domain wall spacetimes: Instability of cosmological event and Cauchy horizons Anzhong Wang and Patricio S. Letelier pp. 1800-1807 [View Page Images , PDF (1387 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering of massless scalar waves by a Schwarzschild black hole: A phase-integral study Nils Andersson pp. 1808-1820 [View Page Images , PDF (2376 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geocentrism reexamined Jeremy Goodman pp. 1821-1827 [View Page Images , PDF (1269 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bounds on very heavy relic neutrinos by their annihilation in the Galactic halo Daniele Fargion, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Rostislav V. Konoplich, and Roberto Mignani pp. 1828-1836 [View Page Images , PDF (1594 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inflation in an open universe Bharat Ratra and P. J. Peebles pp. 1837-1894 [View Page Images , PDF (5509 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inflatonless inflation A. Dobado and A. L. Maroto pp. 1895-1901 [View Page Images , PDF (1258 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	CBR anisotropy from inflation-induced gravitational waves in mixed radiation and dust cosmology Scott Koranda and Bruce Allen pp. 1902-1919 [View Page Images , PDF (3081 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oscillons: Resonant configurations during bubble collapse E. J. Copeland, M. Gleiser, and H.-R. Müller pp. 1920-1933 [View Page Images , PDF (2356 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Defect production in slow first-order phase transitions Julian Borrill, T. W. Kibble, Tanmay Vachaspati, and Alexander Vilenkin pp. 1934-1943 [View Page Images , PDF (4729 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering off an SO(10) cosmic string Anne-Christine Davis and Rachel Jeannerot pp. 1944-1954 [View Page Images , PDF (1533 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Primordial magnetic fields in string cosmology David Lemoine and Martin Lemoine pp. 1955-1962 [View Page Images , PDF (1496 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extrinsic time in quantum cosmology S. C. Beluardi and Rafael Ferraro pp. 1963-1969 [View Page Images , PDF (1007 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbations of an anisotropic spacetime: Formulation Hyerim Noh and Jai-chan Hwang pp. 1970-1987 [View Page Images , PDF (2270 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-adjoint Wheeler-DeWitt operators, the problem of time, and the wave function of the Universe Joshua Feinberg and Yoav Peleg pp. 1988-2000 [View Page Images , PDF (2052 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasilocal energy conditions Geoff Hayward pp. 2001-2006 [View Page Images , PDF (837 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long wavelength iteration of Einstein’s equations near a spacetime singularity Nathalie Deruelle and David Langlois pp. 2007-2019 [View Page Images , PDF (2114 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge fixing of one Killing field reductions of canonical gravity: The case of asymptotically flat induced two-geometry Madhavan Varadarajan pp. 2020-2029 [View Page Images , PDF (1601 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Restricted class of traversable wormholes with traceless matter Sayan Kar and Deshdeep Sahdev pp. 2030-2035 [View Page Images , PDF (895 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strings in a wormhole background Sayan Kar pp. 2036-2043 [View Page Images , PDF (1179 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Head-on collision of two equal mass black holes Peter Anninos, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, and Wai-Mo Suen pp. 2044-2058 [View Page Images , PDF (2814 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-dimensional numerical relativity: The evolution of black holes Peter Anninos, Joan Massó, Edward Seidel, Wai-Mo Suen, and John Towns pp. 2059-2082 [View Page Images , PDF (4988 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact calculation of the energy density of cosmological gravitational waves L. E. Mendes, A. B. Henriques, and R. G. Moorhouse pp. 2083-2088 [View Page Images , PDF (868 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Estimation of the post-Newtonian parameters in the gravitational-wave emission of a coalescing binary Andrzej Królak, Kostas D. Kokkotas, and Gerhard Schäfer pp. 2089-2111 [View Page Images , PDF (3854 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmological evolution of scale-invariant gravity waves Kin-Wang Ng and A. D. Speliotopoulos pp. 2112-2117 [View Page Images , PDF (924 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave propagation in gravitational systems: Late time behavior E. S. Ching, P. T. Leung, W. M. Suen, and K. Young pp. 2118-2132 [View Page Images , PDF (2310 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of the Riemannian geometry in the presence of conical defects Dmitri V. Fursaev and Sergey N. Solodukhin pp. 2133-2143 [View Page Images , PDF (1710 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static four-dimensional Abelian black holes in Kaluza-Klein theory Mirjam Cvetič and Donam Youm pp. 2144-2149 [View Page Images , PDF (933 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signature change induces compactification Franz Embacher pp. 2150-2161 [View Page Images , PDF (2267 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-loop renormalization of the four-dimensional theory for quantum dilaton gravity Ilya L. Shapiro and Hiroyuki Takata pp. 2162-2175 [View Page Images , PDF (2262 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution laws taking pure states to mixed states in quantum field theory William G. Unruh and Robert M. Wald pp. 2176-2182 [View Page Images , PDF (1358 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic gauge conditions in quantum cosmology Giampiero Esposito, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Igor V. Mishakov, and Giuseppe Pollifrone pp. 2183-2191 [View Page Images , PDF (1283 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional gravitation and sine-Gordon solitons Bernd Stötzel pp. 2192-2201 [View Page Images , PDF (1448 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	GUT’s in curved spacetime: Running gravitational constants, Newtonian potential, and the quantum-corrected gravitational equations Emilio Elizalde, Carlos O. Lousto, Sergei D. Odintsov, and August Romeo pp. 2202-2213 [View Page Images , PDF (1923 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional black hole in the three-dimensional black string H. W. Lee, Y. S. Myung, and Jin Young Kim pp. 2214-2220 [View Page Images , PDF (813 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence and recoherence in an analogue of the black hole information paradox J. R. Anglin, R. Laflamme, W. H. Zurek, and J. P. Paz pp. 2221-2231 [View Page Images , PDF (1737 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hawking radiation and energy conservation in an evaporating black hole Won Tae Kim and Julian Lee pp. 2232-2238 [View Page Images , PDF (947 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy in the Russo-Susskind-Thorlacius model Justin D. Hayward pp. 2239-2244 [View Page Images , PDF (864 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black hole entropy without brick walls Jean-Guy Demers, René Lafrance, and Robert C. Myers pp. 2245-2253 [View Page Images , PDF (1419 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmological production of charged black hole pairs R. B. Mann and Simon F. Ross pp. 2254-2265 [View Page Images , PDF (1882 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational instantons and black plane solutions in four-dimensional string theory Adrián R. Lugo pp. 2266-2277 [View Page Images , PDF (1527 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	No N=4 strings on Wolf spaces S. James Gates and Sergei V. Ketov pp. 2278-2293 [View Page Images , PDF (2211 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformal field theory of a rotating dyon Clifford V. Johnson and Robert C. Myers pp. 2294-2311 [View Page Images , PDF (2792 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Duality-invariant superstring actions Abbas Ali pp. 2312-2322 [View Page Images , PDF (1456 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic tachyon fluctuations, marginal deformations, and shock waves in string theory Konstadinos Sfetsos pp. 2323-2332 [View Page Images , PDF (1576 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective action for high-energy scattering in gravity R. Kirschner and L. Szymanowski pp. 2333-2340 [View Page Images , PDF (1192 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuations of the Casimir pressure at finite temperature D. Robaschik and E. Wieczorek pp. 2341-2354 [View Page Images , PDF (1793 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge-invariant three-boson vertices and their Ward identities in the standard model Joannis Papavassiliou and Kostas Philippides pp. 2355-2378 [View Page Images , PDF (3238 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Composite gauge fields and broken symmetries B. S. Balakrishna and K. T. Mahanthappa pp. 2379-2393 [View Page Images , PDF (2415 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge-invariant variables for spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge theory in the spherical ansatz Edward Farhi, Krishna Rajagopal, and Robert Singleton pp. 2394-2401 [View Page Images , PDF (1162 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave packet dynamics in Yang-Mills theory C. R. Hu, S. G. Matinyan, B. Müller, A. Trayanov, T. M. Gould, S. D. Hsu, and E. R. Poppitz pp. 2402-2411 [View Page Images , PDF (1315 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-dual anyons in uniform background fields Kimyeong Lee and Piljin Yi pp. 2412-2421 [View Page Images , PDF (1853 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extending the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian to some nonperturbative and inhomogeneous field configurations R. Ragazzon pp. 2422-2428 [View Page Images , PDF (1153 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Six-body light-front Tamm-Dancoff approximation and wave functions for the massive Schwinger model Koji Harada, Atsushi Okazaki, and Masa-aki Taniguchi pp. 2429-2438 [View Page Images , PDF (1317 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite nonperturbative solutions of Dyson-Schwinger equations in QED in the infrared domain Tomasz Radożycki and Iwo Białynicki-Birula pp. 2439-2445 [View Page Images , PDF (948 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mass spectra of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in 1+1 dimensions Yoichiro Matsumura, Norisuke Sakai, and Tadakatsu Sakai pp. 2446-2461 [View Page Images , PDF (1722 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vertex operators in 2K dimensions T. Banks pp. 2462-2465 [View Page Images , PDF (769 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbation theory and the Aharonov-Bohm effect C. R. Hagen pp. 2466-2470 [View Page Images , PDF (714 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological excitations in a condensate of nonrelativistic bosons coupled to Maxwell and Chern-Simons fields Igor V. Barashenkov and Alexander O. Harin pp. 2471-2483 [View Page Images , PDF (1994 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum electrodynamics at large distances. I. Extracting the correspondence-principle part Takahiro Kawai and Henry P. Stapp pp. 2484-2504 [View Page Images , PDF (3830 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum electrodynamics at large distances. II. Nature of the dominant singularities Takahiro Kawai and Henry P. Stapp pp. 2505-2516 [View Page Images , PDF (2141 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum electrodynamics at large distances. III. Verification of pole factorization and the correspondence principle Takahiro Kawai and Henry P. Stapp pp. 2517-2532 [View Page Images , PDF (2080 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization of a QED plasma in a strong magnetic field Ulf H. Danielsson and Dario Grasso pp. 2533-2542 [View Page Images , PDF (1217 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Screening of static electromagnetic fields in hot QED plasmas Jean-Paul Blaizot, Edmond Iancu, and Rajesh R. Parwani pp. 2543-2562 [View Page Images , PDF (2863 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Lagrangians and chiral random matrix theory M. A. Halasz and J. J. Verbaarschot pp. 2563-2573 [View Page Images , PDF (1825 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Kaluza-Klein black holes within heterotic string theory on a torus Mirjam Cvetič and Donam Youm pp. 2574-2576 [View Page Images , PDF (382 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heat kernel and scaling of gravitational constants Diego A. Dalvit and Francisco D. Mazzitelli pp. 2577-2580 [View Page Images , PDF (662 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Screening of long-range leptonic forces by cosmic background neutrinos Alexandre D. Dolgov and Georg G. Raffelt pp. 2581-2582 [View Page Images , PDF (408 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instability of the R3×S1 vacuum in low-energy effective string theory Mariano Cadoni and Marco Cavaglià pp. 2583-2586 [View Page Images , PDF (729 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization-group-invariant partial sum of Feynman diagrams and its application to phase transitions Seok-In Hong pp. 2587-2590 [View Page Images , PDF (656 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mutual fractional statistics of relativistic Chern-Simons solitons Junsoo Shin, Seungjoon Hyun, and Jae Hyung Yee pp. 2591-2593 [View Page Images , PDF (378 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic moment and perturbation theory with singular magnetic fields Alain Comtet, Stefan Mashkevich, and Stéphane Ouvry pp. 2594-2597 [View Page Images , PDF (621 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Error in a calculation of the Casimir effect for a spherical boundary Gavin Duffy and Adrian Ottewill pp. 2598-2599 [View Page Images , PDF (312 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Static charged black holes in (2 + 1)-dimensional dilaton gravity K. C. Chan and R. B. Mann pp. 2600 [View Page Images or PDF (37 kB) ]