• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
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• BRIEF REPORTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Effect of a magnetic field on the electron neutrino sphere in pulsars Ashok Goyal Published 29 March 1999 (5 pages) 101301 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Model of curvature-induced phase transitions in the inflationary universe J. Hashida, S. Mukaigawa, T. Muta, K. Ohkura, and K. Yamamoto Published 1 April 1999 (4 pages) 101302 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inflation and large internal dimensions Nemanja Kaloper and Andrei Linde Published 6 April 1999 (4 pages) 101303 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

D-instantons probing D3-branes and the AdS-CFT correspondence E. T. Akhmedov Published 16 April 1999 (5 pages) 101901 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation: Signal processing strategies and sensitivities Bruce Allen and Joseph D. Romano Published 31 March 1999 (41 pages) 102001 [View PDF (657 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detecting free-mass common-mode motion induced by incident gravitational waves Michael Edmund Tobar, Toshikazu Suzuki, and Kazuaki Kuroda Published 31 March 1999 (14 pages) 102002 [View PDF (1359 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cancellation of laser noise in an unequal-arm interferometer detector of gravitational radiation Massimo Tinto and J. W. Armstrong Published 22 April 1999 (11 pages) 102003 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Design and analysis of a high-accuracy version of the relativity-gyroscope experiment Benjamin Lange Published 23 April 1999 (16 pages) 102004 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microwave background bispectrum. I. Basic formalism David N. Spergel and David M. Goldberg Published 23 April 1999 (8 pages) 103001 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microwave background bispectrum. II. A probe of the low redshift universe David M. Goldberg and David N. Spergel Published 23 April 1999 (6 pages) 103002 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lorentzian condition in quantum gravity Raphael Bousso and Stephen Hawking Published 29 March 1999 (6 pages) 103501 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision prediction for the big-bang abundance of primordial 4He Robert E. Lopez and Michael S. Turner Published 30 March 1999 (14 pages) 103502 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological R4 inflation John Ellis, Nemanja Kaloper, Keith A. Olive, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama Published 19 April 1999 (11 pages) 103503 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monopole inflation in Brans-Dicke theory Nobuyuki Sakai, Jun’ichi Yokoyama, and Kei-ichi Maeda Published 19 April 1999 (8 pages) 103504 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parametric amplification of density perturbations in the oscillating inflation model A. Taruya Published 20 April 1999 (7 pages) 103505 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Open and closed cosmological solutions of Hořava-Witten theory Harvey S. Reall Published 22 April 1999 (6 pages) 103506 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmological constraints from lensing statistics and supernovae on the cosmic equation of state Ioav Waga and Ana Paula Miceli Published 22 April 1999 (6 pages) 103507 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological defects in the left-right symmetric model and their relevance to cosmology U. A. Yajnik, Hatem Widyan, D. Choudhury, S. Mahajan, and A. Mukherjee Published 27 April 1999 (9 pages) 103508 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bulk and boundary dynamics in BTZ black holes Esko Keski-Vakkuri Published 26 March 1999 (11 pages) 104001 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Can the cosmological constant support a scalar field? Takashi Torii, Kengo Maeda, and Makoto Narita Published 26 March 1999 (7 pages) 104002 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equivalence of critical collapse of non-Abelian fields Piotr Bizoń, Tadeusz Chmaj, and Zbisław Tabor Published 26 March 1999 (3 pages) 104003 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of degenerate Cauchy horizons in black hole spacetimes Rong-Gen Cai Published 26 March 1999 (4 pages) 104004 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hamiltonian thermodynamics of charged black holes A. J. Medved and G. Kunstatter Published 29 March 1999 (9 pages) 104005 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy and topology of two-dimensional extreme black holes Bin Wang and Ru-Keng Su Published 29 March 1999 (8 pages) 104006 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A 3+1 computational scheme for dynamic spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes: Initial data Jonathan Thornburg Published 1 April 1999 (26 pages) 104007 [View PDF (455 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior in gravitational collapse of a perfect fluid Tatsuhiko Koike, Takashi Hara, and Satoshi Adachi Published 1 April 1999 (9 pages) 104008 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Paired accelerated frames: The perfect interferometer with everywhere smooth wave amplitudes Ulrich H. Gerlach Published 5 April 1999 (27 pages) 104009 [View PDF (475 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniqueness theorem for static dilaton U(1)2 black holes Marek Rogatko Published 9 April 1999 (6 pages) 104010 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical collapse beyond spherical symmetry: General perturbations of the Roberts solution Andrei V. Frolov Published 13 April 1999 (7 pages) 104011 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular momentum near the black hole threshold in scalar field collapse David Garfinkle, Carsten Gundlach, and José M. Martín-García Published 13 April 1999 (5 pages) 104012 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Massive higher spin states in string theory and gravitational quadrupoles Ioannis Giannakis, James T. Liu, and Massimo Porrati Published 19 April 1999 (8 pages) 104013 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spherically symmetric closed universe as an example of a 2D dilatonic model László Á. Gergely Published 22 April 1999 (4 pages) 104014 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projector on physical states in loop quantum gravity Carlo Rovelli Published 22 April 1999 (12 pages) 104015 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bounds on negative energy densities in static space-times Christopher J. Fewster and Edward Teo Published 23 April 1999 (10 pages) 104016 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum scalar field on the massless (2+1)-dimensional black hole background Daniele Binosi, Valter Moretti, Luciano Vanzo, and Sergio Zerbini Published 26 April 1999 (13 pages) 104017 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Matrix D-brane dynamics, logarithmic operators, and quantization of noncommutative spacetime Nick E. Mavromatos and Richard J. Szabo Published 26 April 1999 (40 pages) 104018 [View PDF (656 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum energy, variational methods, and the Casimir energy Remo Garattini Published 26 April 1999 (8 pages) 104019 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particlelike solutions of the Einstein-Dirac equations Felix Finster, Joel Smoller, and Shing-Tung Yau Published 26 April 1999 (19 pages) 104020 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Holographic probes of anti–de Sitter spacetimes Vijay Balasubramanian, Per Kraus, Albion Lawrence, and Sandip P. Trivedi Published 26 April 1999 (14 pages) 104021 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermion damping in a fermion-scalar plasma D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega, D.-S. Lee, Y. J. Ng, and S.-Y. Wang Published 26 March 1999 (13 pages) 105001 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Some remarks on theories with large compact dimensions and TeV-scale quantum gravity Shmuel Nussinov and Robert Shrock Published 26 March 1999 (12 pages) 105002 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics in the conformal window in QCD-like theories V. A. Miransky Published 26 March 1999 (5 pages) 105003 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reduction of dual theories Reinhard Oehme Published 29 March 1999 (7 pages) 105004 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Duality between simple-group gauge theories and some applications Takayuki Hirayama and Koichi Yoshioka Published 30 March 1999 (15 pages) 105005 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaluza-Klein states from large extra dimensions Tao Han, Joseph D. Lykken, and Ren-Jie Zhang Published 30 March 1999 (14 pages) 105006 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anyonic physical observables and spin phase transition Hyun Seok Yang and Bum-Hoon Lee Published 7 April 1999 (12 pages) 105007 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Seiberg duality and e+e- experiments André de Gouvêa, Alexander Friedland, and Hitoshi Murayama Published 13 April 1999 (10 pages) 105008 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode-by-mode summation for the zero point electromagnetic energy of an infinite cylinder Kimball A. Milton, A. V. Nesterenko, and V. V. Nesterenko Published 14 April 1999 (9 pages) 105009 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SU(2) Yang-Mills theory with extended supersymmetry in a background magnetic field D. G. McKeon, I. Sachs, and I. A. Shovkovy Published 19 April 1999 (11 pages) 105010 [View PDF (656 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact effective action for [(1+1)-dimensional] fermions in an Abelian background at finite temperature Ashok Das and A. J. da Silva Published 19 April 1999 (9 pages) 105011 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological and universal aspects of bosonized interacting fermionic systems in 2+1 dimensions D. G. Barci, L. E. Oxman, and S. P. Sorella Published 21 April 1999 (11 pages) 105012 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymptotic Padé-approximant methods and QCD current correlation functions F. Chishtie, V. Elias, and T. G. Steele Published 21 April 1999 (10 pages) 105013 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of a class of three-loop vacuum diagrams with two different mass values J.-M. Chung and B. K. Chung Published 21 April 1999 (10 pages) 105014 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmic strings in the Abelian Higgs model with conformal coupling to gravity Y. Verbin Published 22 April 1999 (12 pages) 105015 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light-cone quantization of two dimensional field theory in the path integral approach J. L. Cortés and J. Gamboa Published 22 April 1999 (6 pages) 105016 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unconstrained Hamiltonian formulation of SU(2) gluodynamics A. M. Khvedelidze and H.-P. Pavel Published 23 April 1999 (14 pages) 105017 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Duality of nonsupersymmetric large N gauge theories Martin Schmaltz Published 23 April 1999 (14 pages) 105018 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous kinetics of hard charged particles: Dynamical renormalization group resummation D. Boyanovsky and H. J. Vega Published 23 April 1999 (9 pages) 105019 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective dynamics of hot, soft non-Abelian gauge fields: Color conductivity and log(1/α) effects Peter Arnold, Dam T. Son, and Laurence G. Yaffe Published 23 April 1999 (17 pages) 105020 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	(1+1)-dimensional massive sine-Gordon field theory and the Gaussian wave-functional approach Wen-Fa Lu Published 26 April 1999 (11 pages) 105021 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of extended topological defects during symmetry breaking phase transitions in O(2) and O(3) models G. Holzwarth Published 26 April 1999 (9 pages) 105022 [View PDF (305 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Operator product expansion for Wilson loops and surfaces in the large N limit David Berenstein, Richard Corrado, Willy Fischler, and Juan Maldacena Published 26 April 1999 (10 pages) 105023 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Partial breaking of global D=4 supersymmetry, constrained superfields, and 3-brane actions M. Roček and A. A. Tseytlin Published 26 March 1999 (13 pages) 106001 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SO(2N) (0,2) SCFT and M theory on AdS7×RP4 Changhyun Ahn, Hoil Kim, and Hyun Seok Yang Published 31 March 1999 (7 pages) 106002 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	String multiplets from an invariant 2-brane Sandip Bhattacharyya, Alok Kumar, and Subir Mukhopadhyay Published 20 April 1999 (8 pages) 106003 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum energy cancellation in a nonsupersymmetric string Shamit Kachru, Jason Kumar, and Eva Silverstein Published 21 April 1999 (14 pages) 106004 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonstandard embedding and five-branes in heterotic M theory André Lukas, Burt A. Ovrut, and Daniel Waldram Published 26 April 1999 (17 pages) 106005 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Mirror matter and primordial black holes N. F. Bell and R. R. Volkas Published 12 April 1999 (3 pages) 107301 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotropization of scalar field Bianchi type-IX models with an exponential potential R. J. van den Hoogen and I. Olasagasti Published 20 April 1999 (4 pages) 107302 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chaotic new inflation and primordial spectrum of adiabatic fluctuations Jun’ichi Yokoyama Published 23 April 1999 (4 pages) 107303 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonstatic metrics of the infinite cosmic string type M. A. Martins, Andréa A. Morégula, and M. M. Som Published 7 April 1999 (2 pages) 107501 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	From topological to parametrized field theory Nuno Barros e Sá and Ingemar Bengtsson Published 7 April 1999 (4 pages) 107502 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantization of generally covariant systems with extrinsic time Rafael Ferraro and Daniel M. Sforza Published 19 April 1999 (4 pages) 107503 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global effects due to cosmic defects in Kaluza-Klein theory Cláudio Furtado, Fernando Moraes, and V. B. Bezerra Published 22 April 1999 (4 pages) 107504 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Can the QCD effective charge be symmetrical in the Euclidean and Minkowskian regions? K. A. Milton and I. L. Solovtsov Published 19 April 1999 (2 pages) 107701 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum fluctuations of the Chern-Simons theory and dynamical dimensional reduction Ivan Andrić, Velimir Bardek, and Larisa Jonke Published 23 April 1999 (4 pages) 107702 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Units and numerical values of the effective couplings in perturbative heterotic string vacua Mirjam Cvetič, Lisa Everett, and Jing Wang Published 19 April 1999 (4 pages) 107901 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Soft terms in M theory Tianjun Li Published 20 April 1999 (4 pages) 107902 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Three-gluon vertex in arbitrary gauge and dimension [Phys. Rev. D 54, 4087 (1996)] A. I. Davydychev, P. Osland, and O. V. Tarasov Published 29 March 1999 (1 pages) 109901 [View PDF (51 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Three-loop renormalization of the effective potential [Phys. Rev. D 56, 6508 (1997)] J.-M. Chung and B. K. Chung Published 30 March 1999 (1 pages) 109902 [View PDF (36 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Matching conditions and duality in N=1 SUSY gauge theories in the conformal window [Phys. Rev. D 53, 4526 (1996)] Ian I. Kogan, Mikhail Shifman, and Arkady Vainshtein Published 9 April 1999 (1 pages) 109903 [View PDF (50 kB) ]

•	Erratum: The β function of the chiral Gross-Neveu model at O(1/N2) [Phys. Rev. D 50, 2840 (1994)] J. A. Gracey Published 13 April 1999 (1 pages) 109904 [View PDF (45 kB) ]