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Inflationary gravity waves in light of recent cosmic microwave background anisotropies data Alessandro Melchiorri and Carolina J. Ödman Published 6 January 2003 (5 pages) 021501 [View PDF (369 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

•	LISA response function Neil J. Cornish and Louis J. Rubbo Published 22 January 2003 (7 pages) 022001 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Allais gravity and pendulum effects during solar eclipses explained T. Van Flandern and X. S. Yang Published 27 January 2003 (6 pages) 022002 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Testing the nonperturbative orbifold conjecture A. Gorsky and M. Shifman Published 29 January 2003 (7 pages) 022003 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fast, exact CMB power spectrum estimation for a certain class of observational strategies Benjamin D. Wandelt and Frode K. Hansen Published 16 January 2003 (9 pages) 023001 [View PDF (801 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thickness of a mildly relativistic collisional shock wave J. A. Lima, A. Kandus, and R. Opher Published 21 January 2003 (8 pages) 023002 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First attempt at measuring the CMB cross-polarization Angélica de Oliveira-Costa, Max Tegmark, Matias Zaldarriaga, Denis Barkats, Josh O. Gundersen, Matt M. Hedman, Suzanne T. Staggs, and Bruce Winstein Published 30 January 2003 (11 pages) 023003 [View PDF (714 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-generation study of neutrino spin-flavor conversion in supernovae and implication for the neutrino magnetic moment Shin’ichiro Ando and Katsuhiko Sato Published 30 January 2003 (12 pages) 023004 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	E/B decomposition of finite pixelized CMB maps Emory F. Bunn, Matias Zaldarriaga, Max Tegmark, and Angelica de Oliveira-Costa Published 9 January 2003 (14 pages) 023501 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic field generation from nonequilibrium phase transitions D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega, and M. Simionato Published 9 January 2003 (24 pages) 023502 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Primordial density perturbation in the curvaton scenario David H. Lyth, Carlo Ungarelli, and David Wands Published 10 January 2003 (13 pages) 023503 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supergravity inflation on the brane M. C. Bento, O. Bertolami, and A. A. Sen Published 10 January 2003 (5 pages) 023504 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Indirect detection of a subdominant density component of cold dark matter Gintaras Duda, Graciela Gelmini, Paolo Gondolo, Joakim Edsjö, and Joseph Silk Published 15 January 2003 (10 pages) 023505 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino clustering in cold dark matter halos: Implications for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays Shwetabh Singh and Chung-Pei Ma Published 15 January 2003 (11 pages) 023506 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Varying constants, black holes, and quantum gravity S. Carlip Published 16 January 2003 (5 pages) 023507 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmic evolution and primordial black hole evaporation I. Brevik and G. Halnes Published 16 January 2003 (7 pages) 023508 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonthermal leptogenesis with almost degenerate superheavy neutrinos Rouzbeh Allahverdi and Anupam Mazumdar Published 17 January 2003 (9 pages) 023509 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	M theory, cosmological constant, and anthropic principle Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde Published 24 January 2003 (7 pages) 023510 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alternatives to quintessence model building P. P. Avelino, L. M. Beça, J. P. de Carvalho, C. J. Martins, and P. Pinto Published 24 January 2003 (8 pages) 023511 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmological evolution of brane world moduli Ph. Brax, C. van de Bruck, A.-C. Davis, and C. S. Rhodes Published 28 January 2003 (13 pages) 023512 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal braneworld action: An alternative to the Kaluza-Klein description Andrei O. Barvinsky, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Andreas Rathke, and Claus Kiefer Published 28 January 2003 (19 pages) 023513 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric dark matter and the reheating temperature of the universe N. Fornengo, A. Riotto, and S. Scopel Published 29 January 2003 (11 pages) 023514 [View PDF (841 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmological consequences of a Chaplygin gas dark energy Abha Dev, J. S. Alcaniz, and Deepak Jain Published 30 January 2003 (7 pages) 023515 [View PDF (373 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of a scalar field in a brane world Shuntaro Mizuno, Kei-ichi Maeda, and Kohta Yamamoto Published 30 January 2003 (15 pages) 023516 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interacting quantum field theory in de Sitter vacua Martin B. Einhorn and Finn Larsen Published 8 January 2003 (13 pages) 024001 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric dilaton gravity and smooth charged wormholes Wolfgang Graf Published 8 January 2003 (9 pages) 024002 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasinormal modes of D3-brane black holes Yasunari Kurita and Masa-aki Sakagami Published 8 January 2003 (9 pages) 024003 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrodynamic simulations in 3+1 general relativity Matthew D. Duez, Pedro Marronetti, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Thomas W. Baumgarte Published 13 January 2003 (22 pages) 024004 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of spinning test particles in Kerr spacetime Michael D. Hartl Published 14 January 2003 (20 pages) 024005 [View PDF (641 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thick domain walls and charged dilaton black holes Rafał Moderski and Marek Rogatko Published 15 January 2003 (8 pages) 024006 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical stability of charged black branes and the Gubser-Mitra conjecture Takayuki Hirayama, Gungwon Kang, and Youngone Lee Published 15 January 2003 (12 pages) 024007 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	de Sitter black hole with a conformally coupled scalar field in four dimensions Cristián Martínez, Ricardo Troncoso, and Jorge Zanelli Published 15 January 2003 (3 pages) 024008 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black hole formation in the grazing collision of high-energy particles Hirotaka Yoshino and Yasusada Nambu Published 15 January 2003 (6 pages) 024009 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical evidence for “multiscalar stars” Scott H. Hawley and Matthew W. Choptuik Published 15 January 2003 (5 pages) 024010 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent backgrounds in supergravity and string theory Alex Buchel, Peter Langfelder, and Johannes Walcher Published 16 January 2003 (16 pages) 024011 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear dilaton black holes Gérard Clément, Dmitri Gal’tsov, and Cédric Leygnac Published 16 January 2003 (14 pages) 024012 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Open cosmic strings in black hole space-times Ali Kaya Published 16 January 2003 (9 pages) 024013 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum general relativity and Hawking radiation Cenalo Vaz, Claus Kiefer, T. P. Singh, and Louis Witten Published 16 January 2003 (6 pages) 024014 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the graviton Curt Cutler, William A. Hiscock, and Shane L. Larson Published 16 January 2003 (5 pages) 024015 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detection template families for gravitational waves from the final stages of binary–black-hole inspirals: Nonspinning case Alessandra Buonanno, Yanbei Chen, and Michele Vallisneri Published 17 January 2003 (50 pages) 024016 [View PDF (2644 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of radial null geodesics in higher dimensional dust collapse K. D. Patil Published 17 January 2003 (6 pages) 024017 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Introduction to isolated horizons in numerical relativity Olaf Dreyer, Badri Krishnan, Deirdre Shoemaker, and Erik Schnetter Published 17 January 2003 (14 pages) 024018 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conditional probabilities in Ponzano-Regge minisuperspace Roman Petryk and Kristin Schleich Published 21 January 2003 (13 pages) 024019 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravitational radiation reaction in compact binary systems: Contribution of the quadrupole-monopole interaction László Á. Gergely and Zoltán Keresztes Published 21 January 2003 (7 pages) 024020 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniformly accelerated mirrors. I. Mean fluxes N. Obadia and R. Parentani Published 21 January 2003 (13 pages) 024021 [View PDF (459 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniformly accelerated mirrors. II. Quantum correlations N. Obadia and R. Parentani Published 21 January 2003 (18 pages) 024022 [View PDF (717 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Does a relativistic metric generalization of Newtonian gravity exist in 2+1 dimensions? J. L. Alonso, J. L. Cortés, and V. Laliena Published 21 January 2003 (5 pages) 024023 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Accurate results for primordial black holes from spectra with a distinguished scale David Blais, Torsten Bringmann, Claus Kiefer, and David Polarski Published 21 January 2003 (11 pages) 024024 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-force via a Green’s function decomposition Steven Detweiler and Bernard F. Whiting Published 21 January 2003 (5 pages) 024025 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear response, validity of semiclassical gravity, and the stability of flat space Paul R. Anderson, Carmen Molina-París, and Emil Mottola Published 24 January 2003 (19 pages) 024026 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Euler numbers of four-dimensional rotating black holes with the Euclidean signature Zheng Ze Ma Published 24 January 2003 (8 pages) 024027 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability properties of black holes in self-gravitating nonlinear electrodynamics Claudia Moreno and Olivier Sarbach Published 24 January 2003 (12 pages) 024028 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Regularization parameters for the self-force in Schwarzschild spacetime. II. Gravitational and electromagnetic cases Leor Barack and Amos Ori Published 28 January 2003 (11 pages) 024029 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized Israel junction conditions for a Gauss-Bonnet brane world Stephen C. Davis Published 28 January 2003 (4 pages) 024030 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noether-charge realization of diffeomorphism algebra Han-Ying Guo, Chao-Guang Huang, and Xiaoning Wu Published 30 January 2003 (4 pages) 024031 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	r-modes in accreting neutron stars with magnetoviscous boundary layers Justin B. Kinney and Gregory Mendell Published 30 January 2003 (18 pages) 024032 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Axisymmetric general relativistic hydrodynamics: Long-term evolution of neutron stars and stellar collapse to neutron stars and black holes Masaru Shibata Published 30 January 2003 (24 pages) 024033 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Manifold dimension of a causal set: Tests in conformally flat spacetimes David D. Reid Published 30 January 2003 (8 pages) 024034 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spacetime structure of self-similar spherically symmetric perfect fluid solutions B. J. Carr and Carsten Gundlach Published 30 January 2003 (13 pages) 024035 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Running with the radius in RS1 Adam Lewandowski, Michael J. May, and Raman Sundrum Published 30 January 2003 (10 pages) 024036 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stable, time-dependent, exact solutions for brane models with a bulk scalar field Panagiota Kanti, Seokcheon Lee, and Keith A. Olive Published 31 January 2003 (13 pages) 024037 [View PDF (404 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black hole scalar hair in asymptotically anti–de Sitter spacetimes Daniel Sudarsky and José Antonio González Published 31 January 2003 (5 pages) 024038 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noncommutative scalar field coupled to gravity O. Bertolami and L. Guisado Published 3 January 2003 (6 pages) 025001 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analogue of the Fizeau effect in an effective optical medium K. K. Nandi, Yuan-Zhong Zhang, P. M. Alsing, J. C. Evans, and A. Bhadra Published 8 January 2003 (11 pages) 025002 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous symmetry breaking and reflectionless scattering data M. Bordag and A. Yurov Published 9 January 2003 (9 pages) 025003 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric branes with (almost) arbitrary tensions Jonathan A. Bagger and Dmitry V. Belyaev Published 16 January 2003 (11 pages) 025004 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Domain bubbles of extra dimensions J. R. Morris Published 16 January 2003 (6 pages) 025005 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complex singularities of the critical potential in the large-N limit Y. Meurice Published 16 January 2003 (8 pages) 025006 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weisskopf-Wigner decay theory for the energy-driven stochastic Schrödinger equation Stephen L. Adler Published 17 January 2003 (14 pages) 025007 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spinning particles as a nonlinear realization of the superworldline reparametrization invariance J. Malinsky, V. P. Akulov, N. Abdellatif, and A. Pashnev Published 17 January 2003 (4 pages) 025008 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological gauging of N=16 supergravity in three dimensions Hitoshi Nishino and Subhash Rajpoot Published 21 January 2003 (10 pages) 025009 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical dynamics of quantum fluctuations Ram Brustein and David H. Oaknin Published 22 January 2003 (11 pages) 025010 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mass gap and vacuum energy of the Gross-Neveu model via the 2-point-particle-irreducible expansion David Dudal and Henri Verschelde Published 23 January 2003 (13 pages) 025011 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1/4 BPS dyonic calorons Kimyeong Lee and Sang-Heon Yi Published 27 January 2003 (9 pages) 025012 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Abelian fluid dynamics in Lagrangian formulation B. Bistrovic, R. Jackiw, H. Li, V. P. Nair, and S.-Y. Pi Published 27 January 2003 (11 pages) 025013 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Yang-Mills theory for nonsemisimple groups Jean Nuyts and Tai Tsun Wu Published 27 January 2003 (9 pages) 025014 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectrum of the Hermitian Wilson-Dirac operator for a uniform magnetic field in two dimensions Hiroshi Kurokawa and Takanori Fujiwara Published 28 January 2003 (4 pages) 025015 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bosonization and duality in arbitrary dimensions: New results M. Botta Cantcheff and J. A. Helayel-Neto Published 28 January 2003 (9 pages) 025016 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thick domain walls around a black hole Yoshiyuki Morisawa, Daisuke Ida, Akihiro Ishibashi, and Ken-ichi Nakao Published 28 January 2003 (9 pages) 025017 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field theory of the photon self-energy in a medium with a magnetic field and the Faraday effect Juan Carlos D’Olivo, José F. Nieves, and Sarira Sahu Published 29 January 2003 (20 pages) 025018 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Seiberg-Witten description of the deconstructed 6D (0,2) theory Csaba Csáki, Joshua Erlich, and John Terning Published 30 January 2003 (7 pages) 025019 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric approach to a massive p form duality Pío J. Arias, Lorenzo Leal, and J. C. Pérez-Mosquera Published 30 January 2003 (11 pages) 025020 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering amplitudes at finite temperature M. E. Carrington, Hou Defu, and R. Kobes Published 30 January 2003 (16 pages) 025021 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shear viscosity of hot scalar field theory in the real-time formalism Enke Wang and Ulrich Heinz Published 31 January 2003 (12 pages) 025022 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational analysis of deconfinement in compact U(1) gauge theory B. M. Gripaios Published 31 January 2003 (10 pages) 025023 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbifolds, Penrose limits, and supersymmetry enhancement Kyungho Oh and Radu Tatar Published 8 January 2003 (11 pages) 026001 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Open strings in a pp-wave background from defect conformal field theory Peter Lee and Jongwon Park Published 8 January 2003 (6 pages) 026002 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Space-time orbifold: A toy model for a cosmological singularity Vijay Balasubramanian, S. F. Hassan, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, and Asad Naqvi Published 15 January 2003 (11 pages) 026003 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization of F1 strings into D2 branes Iosif Bena Published 17 January 2003 (8 pages) 026004 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tachyon dynamics and the effective action approximation N. D. Lambert and I. Sachs Published 17 January 2003 (8 pages) 026005 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Moduli and brane intersections Neil D. Lambert Published 22 January 2003 (10 pages) 026006 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Type IIA string instanton corrections to the four-fermion correlator in the intersection of Del Pezzo surfaces Andrei Cheshel and Sergei V. Ketov Published 28 January 2003 (9 pages) 026007 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BPS states of strings in 3-form flux Mariana Graña and Andrew R. Frey Published 29 January 2003 (12 pages) 026008 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possibility of optical unification in heterotic strings G. Cleaver, V. Desai, H. Hanson, J. Perkins, D. Robbins, and S. Shields Published 30 January 2003 (8 pages) 026009 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	pp-wave string interactions from the string bit model Jian-Ge Zhou Published 31 January 2003 (8 pages) 026010 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Singularities of gravity in the presence of nonminimally coupled scalar fields L. R. Abramo, L. Brenig, E. Gunzig, and Alberto Saa Published 15 January 2003 (4 pages) 027301 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmic numbers: A physical classification for cosmological models P. P. Avelino and C. J. Martins Published 15 January 2003 (3 pages) 027302 [View PDF (26 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fresh inflation with increasing cosmological parameter Mauricio Bellini Published 24 January 2003 (4 pages) 027303 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization group summation and the free energy of hot QCD D. G. McKeon and A. Rebhan Published 30 January 2003 (4 pages) 027701 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Density perturbations in the ekpyrotic scenario” Jérôme Martin, Patrick Peter, Nelson Pinto-Neto, and Dominik J. Schwarz Published 15 January 2003 (4 pages) 028301 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Nonperturbative effects of vacuum energy on the recent expansion of the universe [Phys. Rev. D 60, 063512 (1999)] Leonard Parker and Alpan Raval Published 9 January 2003 (1 pages) 029901 [View PDF (10 kB) ]

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