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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

No crisis for big bang nucleosynthesis Peter J. Kernan and Subir Sarkar pp. R3681-R3685 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Causality and the Doppler peaks Neil Turok pp. R3686-R3689 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

D-brane recoil and infrared divergences in string theory Vipul Periwal and Øyvind Tafjord pp. R3690-R3692 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Weak scale superstrings Joseph D. Lykken pp. R3693-R3697 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	High-energy cosmic neutrinos and the equivalence principle Hisakazu Minakata and Alexei Yu. Smirnov pp. 3698-3705 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino-electron scattering in a dense magnetized plasma V. G. Bezchastnov and P. Haensel pp. 3706-3721 [View PDF (334 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eternal annihilations of light photinos Edward W. Kolb and Antonio Riotto pp. 3722-3726 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of Doppler peaks induced by active perturbations Joao Magueijo, Andreas Albrecht, Pedro Ferreira, and David Coulson pp. 3727-3744 [View PDF (393 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reheating and thermalization in a simple scalar model D. T. Son pp. 3745-3761 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational waves from a spinning particle in circular orbits around a rotating black hole Takahiro Tanaka, Yasushi Mino, Misao Sasaki, and Masaru Shibata pp. 3762-3777 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave propagation in gravitational systems: Completeness of quasinormal modes E. S. Ching, P. T. Leung, W. M. Suen, and K. Young pp. 3778-3791 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytic approximations to the spacetime of a critical gravitational collapse Richard H. Price and Jorge Pullin pp. 3792-3799 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	String-supported wormhole spacetimes containing closed timelike curves F. Schein, P. C. Aichelburg, and W. Israel pp. 3800-3805 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical and quantum initial value problems for models of chronology violation C. J. Fewster, A. Higuchi, and C. G. Wells pp. 3806-3825 [View PDF (395 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model for nonspherical collapse and formation of black holes by emission of neutrinos, strings, and gravitational waves M. L. Bedran, M. O. Calvão, H. P. de Oliveira, and I. Damião Soares pp. 3826-3829 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformally dressed black hole in 2 + 1 dimensions Cristián Martínez and Jorge Zanelli pp. 3830-3833 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational instability of a kink W. Barreto, R. Gómez, L. Lehner, and J. Winicour pp. 3834-3839 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotating charged black strings and three-dimensional black holes José P. Lemos and Vilson T. Zanchin pp. 3840-3853 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact gravitational shock wave solution of higher order theories M. Campanelli and C. O. Lousto pp. 3854-3860 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Abelian BF theories with sources and two-dimensional gravity J. P. Lupi, A. Restuccia, and J. Stephany pp. 3861-3868 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-loop divergences in simple supergravity: Boundary effects Giampiero Esposito and Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik pp. 3869-3881 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface gravity in dynamical spherically symmetric spacetimes Gyula Fodor, Kouji Nakamura, Yoshimi Oshiro, and Akira Tomimatsu pp. 3882-3891 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conserved masses in GHS Einstein and string black holes and consistent thermodynamics K. C. Chan, J. D. Creighton, and R. B. Mann pp. 3892-3899 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black hole entropy: Statistical mechanics agrees with thermodynamics Sergey N. Solodukhin pp. 3900-3903 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy of a quantum field in rotating black holes Min-Ho Lee and Jae Kwan Kim pp. 3904-3914 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy and temperature of black 3-branes S. S. Gubser, I. R. Klebanov, and A. W. Peet pp. 3915-3919 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation and evaporation of primordial black holes in scalar-tensor gravity theories John D. Barrow and B. J. Carr pp. 3920-3931 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conical geometry and quantum entropy of a charged Kerr black hole Robert B. Mann and Sergey N. Solodukhin pp. 3932-3940 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	MSW effect in a fluctuating matter density A. B. Balantekin, J. M. Fetter, and F. N. Loreti pp. 3941-3951 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Irreversible thermodynamics of Kerr-Newman black holes Osamu Kaburaki pp. 3952-3957 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Innermost stable circular orbit of inspiraling neutron-star binaries: Tidal effects, post-Newtonian effects, and the neutron-star equation of state Dong Lai and Alan G. Wiseman pp. 3958-3964 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Four-loop vacuum energy β function in O(N) symmetric scalar theory Boris Kastening pp. 3965-3975 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	K models and type IIB superstring backgrounds Alok Kumar and Gautam Sengupta pp. 3976-3980 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bosonic description of spinning strings in 2+1 dimensions B. Harms and A. Stern pp. 3981-3984 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Loop equations for loops with Ising spins either all up or all down in c=1 / 2 noncritical string theory Ryuichi Nakayama and Toshiya Suzuki pp. 3985-3994 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal aspects of string propagation on curved backgrounds Ioannis Bakas and Konstadinos Sfetsos pp. 3995-4003 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiation from an excited vortex in the Abelian Higgs model H. Arodź and L. Hadasz pp. 4004-4012 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation and kinetics in scalar field theories D. Boyanovsky, I. D. Lawrie, and D. -S. Lee pp. 4013-4028 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New relativistic high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation L. Burakovsky, L. P. Horwitz, and W. C. Schieve pp. 4029-4038 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultraviolet renormalon reexamined A. I. Vainshtein and V. I. Zakharov pp. 4039-4048 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of the full vertex and vacuum polarization on the fermion propagator in (2+1)-dimensional QED P. Maris pp. 4049-4058 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective theory for parity-conserving three-dimensional QED I. J. Aitchison, C. D. Fosco, and F. D. Mazzitelli pp. 4059-4065 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral symmetry at finite temperature: Linear versus nonlinear σ models Alexander Bochkarev and Joseph Kapusta pp. 4066-4079 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superspace formulation for the master equation Everton M. Abreu and Nelson R. Braga pp. 4080-4086 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-gluon vertex in arbitrary gauge and dimension A. I. Davydychev, P. Osland, and O. V. Tarasov pp. 4087-4113 [View PDF (507 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BRST-invariant Lagrangian of spontaneously broken gauge theories in a noncommutative geometry Yoshitaka Okumura pp. 4114-4120 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fixed point action and topology in the CP3 model Rudolf Burkhalter pp. 4121-4130 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Contractor renormalization group technology and exact Hamiltonian real-space renormalization group transformations Colin J. Morningstar and Marvin Weinstein pp. 4131-4151 [View PDF (385 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective potential for a covariantly constant gauge field in curved spacetime Emilio Elizalde, Sergei D. Odintsov, and August Romeo pp. 4152-4159 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutral particles with spin 1/2 and action-at-a-distance theory V. V. Tugaĭ and A. A. Zheltukhin pp. 4160-4168 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Matter-microwave correlations in an open universe Marc Kamionkowski pp. 4169-4170 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bäcklund transformation for nonrelativistic Chern-Simons vortices P. A. Horváthy and J. -C. Yera pp. 4171-4174 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Remarks on "Relativistic kinetic equations for electromagnetic, scalar, and pseudoscalar interactions" Abdellatif Abada, Michael C. Birse, Pengfei Zhuang, and Ulrich Heinz pp. 4175-4176 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unidexterous versus ambidexterous gravities Ricardo Amorim and Ashok Das pp. 4177-4180 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schwinger-Dyson equation approach to chiral symmetry breaking in an external magnetic field C. N. Leung, Y. J. Ng, and A. W. Ackley pp. 4181-4184 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Remarks on the issue of time and complex numbers in canonical quantum gravity J. L. Rosales pp. 4185-4188 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Class of exact solutions in 5D gravity and its physical properties Andrew Billyard and Paul S. Wesson pp. 4189 [View PDF (26 kB) ]