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Ashtekar's variables for arbitrary gauge group Peter Peldán pp. R2279-R2282 [View   PDF (580 kB) ]

New test of the equivalence principle for the antiproton R. J. Hughes pp. R2283-R2286 [View   PDF (635 kB) ]

Semilocal self-dual Chern-Simons vortices Avinash Khare pp. R2287-R2289 [View   PDF (380 kB) ]

Explicit construction of massive spin-two fields in Kaluza-Klein theory Y. M. Cho and S. W. Zoh pp. R2290-R2294 [View   PDF (758 kB) ]

Bogomol'nyi limit for nontopological solitons in a Chern-Simons model with anomalous magnetic moment Manuel Torres pp. R2295-R2298 [View   PDF (587 kB) ]

•	Comparative performance of two-, three-, and four-mode gravitational radiation detectors N. Solomonson, W. W. Johnson, and W. O. Hamilton pp. 2299-2308 [View   PDF (1601 kB) ]

•	Approaching the quantum limit with optically instrumented multimode gravitational-wave bar detectors J. -P. Richard pp. 2309-2317 [View   PDF (1461 kB) ]

•	Close black-hole binary systems James Kent Blackburn and Steven Detweiler pp. 2318-2333 [View   PDF (2448 kB) ]

•	Statistical mechanics of black holes B. Harms and Y. Leblanc pp. 2334-2340 [View   PDF (1131 kB) ]

•	Constraints on radiative decay of the 17-keV neutrino from COBE measurements Biman B. Nath pp. 2341-2344 [View   PDF (511 kB) ]

•	Nucleation of thick topological defects during inflation Rama Basu and Alexander Vilenkin pp. 2345-2354 [View   PDF (1358 kB) ]

•	Did the Universe have a beginning? Alexander Vilenkin pp. 2355-2361 [View   PDF (1282 kB) ]

•	Constraints on radiative decay of massive neutrinos Boqi Wang pp. 2362-2365 [View   PDF (633 kB) ]

•	Thermal history of the string universe Hideyuki Câteau and Kosuke Sumiyoshi pp. 2366-2380 [View   PDF (2486 kB) ]

•	Analytic study of self-intersections in the Turok two-parameter family of cosmic strings Franz Embacher pp. 2381-2383 [View   PDF (395 kB) ]

•	Bubble nucleation in first-order inflation and other cosmological phase transitions Michael S. Turner, Erick J. Weinberg, and Lawrence M. Widrow pp. 2384-2403 [View   PDF (3685 kB) ]

•	Cosmological consequences of a time-dependent Λ term J. C. Carvalho, J. A. Lima, and I. Waga pp. 2404-2407 [View   PDF (558 kB) ]

•	Stochastic inflation: Quantum phase-space approach Salman Habib pp. 2408-2427 [View   PDF (2974 kB) ]

•	Particle creation for time travel through a wormhole Sung-Won Kim pp. 2428-2434 [View   PDF (1044 kB) ]

•	Rotation halts cylindrical, relativistic gravitational collapse Theocharis A. Apostolatos and Kip S. Thorne pp. 2435-2444 [View   PDF (1775 kB) ]

•	Dirty black holes: Thermodynamics and horizon structure Matt Visser pp. 2445-2451 [View   PDF (1078 kB) ]

•	Vacuum initial data, singularities, and cosmic censorship Andrew M. Abrahams, Karen R. Heiderich, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Saul A. Teukolsky pp. 2452-2463 [View   PDF (2006 kB) ]

•	Lorentzian wormholes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory Biplab Bhawal and Sayan Kar pp. 2464-2468 [View   PDF (756 kB) ]

•	Wormholes and supersymmetry J. R. Anglin and R. C. Myers pp. 2469-2479 [View   PDF (1593 kB) ]

•	Ising model coupled to three-dimensional quantum gravity C. F. Baillie pp. 2480-2485 [View   PDF (957 kB) ]

•	Quantum emission from two-dimensional black holes Steven B. Giddings and William M. Nelson pp. 2486-2496 [View   PDF (1567 kB) ]

•	Emergence of radiation from gravitational potential wells: The absence of ωM effects Richard H. Price and Jorge Pullin pp. 2497-2506 [View   PDF (1714 kB) ]

•	Signal analysis of the post-Newtonian gravitational wave form of coalescing binaries Kanti Jotania, Sanjay M. Wagh, and Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar pp. 2507-2516 [View   PDF (1480 kB) ]

•	Linear-order stability of the gravitational plane-wave Cauchy horizons Gregory A. Burnett pp. 2517-2521 [View   PDF (854 kB) ]

•	Signatures of black holes in string theory Metin Gürses pp. 2522-2526 [View   PDF (704 kB) ]

•	The quantized O(1,2)/O(2)×Z2 sigma model has no continuum limit in four dimensions. I. Theoretical framework Jorge L. deLyra, Bryce DeWitt, See Kit Foong, T. E. Gallivan, Rob Harrington, Arie Kapulkin, Eric Myers, and Joseph Polchinski pp. 2527-2537 [View   PDF (1514 kB) ]

•	The quantized O(1,2) / O(2)×Z2 sigma model has no continuum limit in four dimensions. II. Lattice simulation Jorge L. deLyra, Bryce DeWitt, See Kit Foong, T. E. Gallivan, Rob Harrington, Arie Kapulkin, Eric Myers, and Joseph Polchinski pp. 2538-2552 [View   PDF (2131 kB) ]

•	Zero modes, Euclideanization, and quantization A. Folacci pp. 2553-2559 [View   PDF (974 kB) ]

•	Adiabatic regularization of the quantum stress-energy tensor in curved spacetimes: Stochastic quantization method Wung-Hong Huang pp. 2560-2569 [View   PDF (1190 kB) ]

•	δ expansion of models with chiral-symmetry breaking Sunil K. Gandhi and Marcus B. Pinto pp. 2570-2577 [View   PDF (1026 kB) ]

•	QED in a unified axial-gauge formalism with a general gauge parameter George Leibbrandt and K. Allan Richardson pp. 2578-2584 [View   PDF (630 kB) ]

•	Classical λφ4 theory in 3 + 1 dimensions H. Goldberg, D. Nash, and M. T. Vaughn pp. 2585-2593 [View   PDF (1295 kB) ]

•	Supersymmetry, naturalness, and dynamical supersymmetry breaking Michael Dine and Douglas A. MacIntire pp. 2594-2601 [View   PDF (1508 kB) ]

•	On-shell expansion of effective action and quark-line diagrams in quantum chromodynamics M. Komachiya and R. Fukuda pp. 2602-2616 [View   PDF (1984 kB) ]

•	1 / N expansion of the nonlinear σ model and its renormalization through stochastic quantization J. C. Brunelli and M. Gomes pp. 2617-2627 [View   PDF (1157 kB) ]

•	Phase transition temperatures at next-to-leading order Peter Arnold pp. 2628-2635 [View   PDF (1046 kB) ]

•	Static quark-antiquark potential: Scaling behavior and finite-size effects in SU(3) lattice gauge theory G. S. Bali and K. Schilling pp. 2636-2646 [View   PDF (1270 kB) ]

•	Monte Carlo simulation of CPN-1 models Massimo Campostrini, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari pp. 2647-2662 [View   PDF (2674 kB) ]

•	Generating fermion mass in four-dimensional quenched QED D. C. Curtis and M. R. Pennington pp. 2663-2667 [View   PDF (672 kB)  See Also: Erratum]

•	Bubble nucleation and growth at a baryon-number-producing electroweak phase transition Bao Hua Liu, Larry McLerran, and Neil Turok pp. 2668-2688 [View   PDF (3470 kB) ]

•	Thermal effects and the effective action of quantum electrodynamics M. Loewe and J. C. Rojas pp. 2689-2694 [View   PDF (613 kB) ]

•	Photon polarization tensor and gauge dependence in three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics Conrad J. Burden, Justin Praschifka, and Craig D. Roberts pp. 2695-2702 [View   PDF (1181 kB) ]

•	Surface tension of nucleating hadrons using the free energy of an isolated quark R. Brower, S. Huang, J. Potvin, and C. Rebbi pp. 2703-2708 [View   PDF (929 kB) ]

•	Stationary solutions to the gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation Kyung Hyun Cho, Dong-Hwa Oh, and Chaiho Rim pp. 2709-2713 [View   PDF (704 kB) ]

•	Ground-state energy of nanyons Avinash Khare, John McCabe, and Stéphane Ouvry pp. 2714-2719 [View   PDF (889 kB) ]

•	Conditions for the existence of closed timelike curves in 2+1 gravity Daniel N. Kabat pp. 2720-2722 [View   PDF (392 kB) ]

•	Time evolution of self-similar scalar soliton stars: A general study J. M. Aguirregabiria, A. Di Prisco, L. Herrera, and J. Ibáñez pp. 2723-2725 [View   PDF (377 kB) ]

•	Averaged-null-energy condition for electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime A. Folacci pp. 2726-2729 [View   PDF (494 kB) ]

•	BRST formulation of Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled to matter fields Hyeonjoon Shin, Won-Tae Kim, Jae-Kwan Kim, and Young-Jai Park pp. 2730-2733 [View   PDF (462 kB) ]

•	Faddeev-Jackiw quantization of Siegel's chiral oscillator Clovis Wotzasek pp. 2734-2736 [View   PDF (395 kB) ]

•	Dynamical symmetry breaking and phase transitions in a three-dimensional Gross-Neveu model in a strong magnetic field I. V. Krive and S. A. Naftulin pp. 2737-2740 [View   PDF (444 kB) ]

•	Erratum: CPN-1 models in the 1 / N expansion Massimo Campostrini and Paolo Rossi pp. 2741-2742 [View   PDF (59 kB) ]