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Evidence against or for topological defects in the BOOMERanG data? F. R. Bouchet, P. Peter, A. Riazuelo, and M. Sakellariadou Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages) 021301 [View   PDF (124 kB)  ]

Lower bound on the local extragalactic magnetic field Luis A. Anchordoqui and Haim Goldberg Published 26 December 2001 (5 pages) 021302 [View   PDF (70 kB)  ]

k-string tensions in SU(N) gauge theories Luigi Del Debbio, Haralambos Panagopoulos, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 021501 [View   PDF (58 kB)  ]

Fixing the conformal window in QCD G. Grunberg Published 26 December 2001 (5 pages) 021701 [View   PDF (69 kB)  ]

Action for supergravity interacting with super-p-brane sources Igor A. Bandos, José A. de Azcárraga, José M. Izquierdo, and Jerzy Lukierski Published 21 December 2001 (5 pages) 021901 [View   PDF (80 kB)  ]

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Search for periodic gravitational wave sources with the Explorer detector P. Astone, M. Bassan, P. Bonifazi, P. Carelli, E. Coccia, C. Cosmelli, S. D’Antonio, V. Fafone, S. Frasca, Y. Minenkov, I. Modena, G. Modestino, A. Moleti, G. V. Pallottino, M. A. Papa, G. Pizzella, L. Quintieri, F. Ronga, R. Terenzi, and M. Visco Published 19 December 2001 (11 pages) 022001 [View   PDF (300 kB)  ]

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Conversion of conventional gravitational-wave interferometers into quantum nondemolition interferometers by modifying their input and/or output optics H. J. Kimble, Yuri Levin, Andrey B. Matsko, Kip S. Thorne, and Sergey P. Vyatchanin Published 26 December 2001 (31 pages) 022002 [View   PDF (499 kB)  ]

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Making maps of the cosmic microwave background: The MAXIMA example Radek Stompor, Amedeo Balbi, Julian D. Borrill, Pedro G. Ferreira, Shaul Hanany, Andrew H. Jaffe, Adrian T. Lee, Sang Oh, Bahman Rabii, Paul L. Richards, George F. Smoot, Celeste D. Winant, and Jiun-Huei Proty Wu Published 26 December 2001 (25 pages) 022003 [View   PDF (1134 kB)  ]

•	Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Neil J. Cornish Published 26 December 2001 (11 pages) 022004 [View   PDF (438 kB)  ]

•	Cross-correlation between gravitational wave detectors for detecting association with gamma ray bursts G. Modestino and A. Moleti Published 26 December 2001 (5 pages) 022005 [View   PDF (187 kB)  ]

•	Microlensing by natural wormholes: Theory and simulations Margarita Safonova, Diego F. Torres, and Gustavo E. Romero Published 29 November 2001 (15 pages) 023001 [View   PDF (466 kB)  ]

•	Transport of cosmic rays in chaotic magnetic fields Fabien Casse, Martin Lemoine, and Guy Pelletier Published 29 November 2001 (15 pages) 023002 [View   PDF (203 kB)  ]

•	Dark synergy: Gravitational lensing and the CMB Wayne Hu Published 21 December 2001 (15 pages) 023003 [View   PDF (1017 kB)  ]

•	Centaurus A as the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays? Claudia Isola, Martin Lemoine, and Günter Sigl Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 023004 [View   PDF (295 kB)  ]

•	Image distortion by thick lenses Simonetta Frittelli and Thomas E. Oberst Published 26 December 2001 (15 pages) 023005 [View   PDF (293 kB)  ]

•	Structure formation in the Lemaître-Tolman model Andrzej Krasiński and Charles Hellaby Published 28 November 2001 (15 pages) 023501 [View   PDF (300 kB)  ]

•	Supernova type Ia data and the cosmic microwave background of modified curvature at short and large distances Mar Bastero-Gil and Laura Mersini Published 28 November 2001 (8 pages) 023502 [View   PDF (168 kB)  ]

•	Evolution of Abelian-Higgs string networks J. N. Moore, E. P. Shellard, and C. J. Martins Published 19 December 2001 (19 pages) 023503 [View   PDF (2135 kB)  ]

•	Semiclassical instability of the brane-world: Randall-Sundrum bubbles Daisuke Ida, Tetsuya Shiromizu, and Hirotaka Ochiai Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 023504 [View   PDF (64 kB)  ]

•	Analysis of CMB polarization on an incomplete sky Antony Lewis, Anthony Challinor, and Neil Turok Published 19 December 2001 (20 pages) 023505 [View   PDF (277 kB)  ]

•	Bounds on the possible evolution of the gravitational constant from cosmological type-Ia supernovae E. Gaztañaga, E. García-Berro, J. Isern, E. Bravo, and I. Domínguez Published 20 December 2001 (9 pages) 023506 [View   PDF (111 kB)  ]

•	Inflation from D-D¯ brane annihilation Stephon H. Alexander Published 21 December 2001 (8 pages) 023507 [View   PDF (82 kB)  ]

•	Quintessence as a runaway dilaton M. Gasperini, F. Piazza, and G. Veneziano Published 21 December 2001 (13 pages) 023508 [View   PDF (521 kB)  ]

•	Asymptotic behavior of FRW cosmologies with many scalar fields Mario Castagnino, Hector Giacomini, and Luis Lara Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages) 023509 [View   PDF (75 kB)  ]

•	Stress-energy tensor for trans-Planckian cosmology Martin Lemoine, Musongela Lubo, Jérôme Martin, and Jean-Philippe Uzan Published 21 December 2001 (14 pages) 023510 [View   PDF (181 kB)  ]

•	Constraining neutrino physics with big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave background radiation S. H. Hansen, G. Mangano, A. Melchiorri, G. Miele, and O. Pisanti Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages) 023511 [View   PDF (157 kB)  ]

•	Gauge-ready formulation of the cosmological kinetic theory in generalized gravity theories Jai-chan Hwang and Hyerim Noh Published 26 December 2001 (26 pages) 023512 [View   PDF (350 kB)  ]

•	Has the Universe always expanded? Patrick Peter and Nelson Pinto-Neto Published 26 December 2001 (10 pages) 023513 [View   PDF (120 kB)  ]

•	Bulk gravitational field and cosmological perturbations on the brane Kazuya Koyama and Jiro Soda Published 26 December 2001 (20 pages) 023514 [View   PDF (223 kB)  ]

•	Further evidence for a generic universe César A. Terrero-Escalante and Alberto A. García Published 26 December 2001 (11 pages) 023515 [View   PDF (138 kB)  ]

•	de Broglie–Bohm FRW universes in quantum string cosmology J. Marto and P. Vargas Moniz Published 26 December 2001 (16 pages) 023516 [View   PDF (1366 kB)  ]

•	Gravitational wave production: A strong constraint on primordial magnetic fields Chiara Caprini and Ruth Durrer Published 26 December 2001 (11 pages) 023517 [View   PDF (147 kB)  ]

•	Relic gravity waves from braneworld inflation Varun Sahni, M. Sami, and Tarun Souradeep Published 26 December 2001 (16 pages) 023518 [View   PDF (289 kB)  ]

•	Termination of the phase of quintessence by gravitational back reaction Mingzhe Li, Wenbin Lin, Xinmin Zhang, and Robert Brandenberger Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 023519 [View   PDF (89 kB)  ]

•	Calculating exclusion limits for weakly interacting massive particle direct detection experiments without background subtraction Anne M. Green Published 26 December 2001 (6 pages) 023520 [View   PDF (62 kB)  ]

•	Cosmological and black hole brane-world universes in higher derivative gravity Shin’ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, and Sachiko Ogushi Published 26 December 2001 (22 pages) 023521 [View   PDF (240 kB)  ]

•	Nonlinear mode coupling in rotating stars and the r-mode instability in neutron stars A. K. Schenk, P. Arras, É. É. Flanagan, S. A. Teukolsky, and I. Wasserman Published 29 November 2001 (43 pages) 024001 [View   PDF (473 kB)  ]

•	Conformal dynamics of 0-branes M. Cadoni, P. Carta, M. Cavaglià, and S. Mignemi Published 29 November 2001 (12 pages) 024002 [View   PDF (134 kB)  ]

•	Instability of extremal relativistic charged spheres Peter Anninos and Tony Rothman Published 29 November 2001 (10 pages) 024003 [View   PDF (146 kB)  ]

•	Causal entropy bound for nonsingular cosmologies Ram Brustein, Stefano Foffa, and Avraham E. Mayo Published 29 November 2001 (6 pages) 024004 [View   PDF (74 kB)  ]

•	Light rays at optical black holes in moving media I. Brevik and G. Halnes Published 29 November 2001 (12 pages) 024005 [View   PDF (132 kB)  ]

•	Precursors, black holes, and a locality bound Steven B. Giddings and Matthew Lippert Published 3 December 2001 (11 pages) 024006 [View   PDF (211 kB)  ]

•	Critical phenomena at the threshold of black hole formation for collisionless matter in spherical symmetry Ignacio (Iñaki) Olabarrieta and Matthew W. Choptuik Published 7 December 2001 (10 pages) 024007 [View   PDF (145 kB)  ]

•	Primordial black holes from inflationary models with and without broken scale invariance Torsten Bringmann, Claus Kiefer, and David Polarski Published 19 December 2001 (7 pages) 024008 [View   PDF (94 kB)  ]

•	Quantum inequalities for the electromagnetic field Michael J. Pfenning Published 19 December 2001 (13 pages) 024009 [View   PDF (155 kB)  ]

•	Density discontinuity of a neutron star and gravitational waves Hajime Sotani, Kazuhiro Tominaga, and Kei-ichi Maeda Published 19 December 2001 (12 pages) 024010 [View   PDF (153 kB)  ]

•	Choice of connection in loop quantum gravity Serguei Alexandrov Published 20 December 2001 (7 pages) 024011 [View   PDF (88 kB)  ]

•	Probing black holes in nonperturbative gauge theory Norihiro Iizuka, Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz, and David A. Lowe Published 20 December 2001 (14 pages) 024012 [View   PDF (204 kB)  ]

•	Teleparallel superspace in eleven dimensions coupled to supermembranes S. James Gates, Hitoshi Nishino, and Subhash Rajpoot Published 21 December 2001 (7 pages) 024013 [View   PDF (95 kB)  ]

•	Quantum fluctuations in brane-world inflation without an inflaton on the brane Norichika Sago, Yoshiaki Himemoto, and Misao Sasaki Published 21 December 2001 (9 pages) 024014 [View   PDF (115 kB)  ]

•	Quasineutral plasma equilibria in a Kerr metric Klaus Elsässer Published 21 December 2001 (9 pages) 024015 [View   PDF (165 kB)  ]

•	Comparing the inspiral of irrotational and corotational binary neutron stars Matthew D. Duez, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata, and Kōji Uryū Published 21 December 2001 (8 pages) 024016 [View   PDF (244 kB)  ]

•	Black holes with less entropy than A/4 Don N. Page Published 21 December 2001 (12 pages) 024017 [View   PDF (124 kB)  ]

•	Stress-energy tensor in soluble models of spherically symmetric charged black hole evaporation Kamran Diba and David A. Lowe Published 21 December 2001 (13 pages) 024018 [View   PDF (173 kB)  ]

•	Dilatonic monopoles and “hairy” black holes Y. Brihaye, B. Hartmann, and J. Kunz Published 21 December 2001 (10 pages) 024019 [View   PDF (237 kB)  ]

•	Area scaling entropies for gravitating systems Jonathan Oppenheim Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 024020 [View   PDF (51 kB)  ]

•	Scalar field induced oscillations of relativistic stars and gravitational collapse Florian Siebel, José A. Font, and Philippos Papadopoulos Published 21 December 2001 (10 pages) 024021 [View   PDF (149 kB)  ]

•	Kerr metric as an exact solution for unpolarized S1×S2 Gowdy models O. Obregón, H. Quevedo, and M. P. Ryan Published 21 December 2001 (10 pages) 024022 [View   PDF (262 kB)  ]

•	Bounds on the cosmological abundance of primordial black holes from diffuse sky brightness: Single mass spectra P. S. Custódio and J. E. Horvath Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 024023 [View   PDF (113 kB)  ]

•	Rotating soliton solution in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion gravity Maria Yurova Published 26 December 2001 (5 pages) 024024 [View   PDF (62 kB)   See Also: Erratum]

•	Multi-black-hole sectors of AdS3 gravity Teresia Månsson and Bo Sundborg Published 26 December 2001 (12 pages) 024025 [View   PDF (132 kB)  ]

•	Resonant interaction of photons with gravitational waves J. T. Mendonça and L. O’C. Drury Published 26 December 2001 (5 pages) 024026 [View   PDF (66 kB)  ]

•	Axially symmetric monopoles and black holes in Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory Betti Hartmann, Burkhard Kleihaus, and Jutta Kunz Published 26 December 2001 (22 pages) 024027 [View   PDF (477 kB)  ]

•	Doubly covariant action principle of singular hypersurfaces in general relativity and scalar-tensor theories Shinji Mukohyama Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 024028 [View   PDF (91 kB)  ]

•	Gravitation with superposed Gauss-Bonnet terms in higher dimensions: Black hole metrics and maximal extensions A. Chakrabarti and D. H. Tchrakian Published 26 December 2001 (9 pages) 024029 [View   PDF (101 kB)  ]

•	Stability of the shell of D6-D2 branes in an N =2 supergravity solution Kengo Maeda, Takashi Torii, Makoto Narita, and Shigeaki Yahikozawa Published 26 December 2001 (14 pages) 024030 [View   PDF (170 kB)  ]

•	Scales of gravity Gia Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, Marko Kolanović, and Francesco Nitti Published 26 December 2001 (27 pages) 024031 [View   PDF (378 kB)  ]

•	Neutrino masses from large extra dimensions Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali, and John March-Russell Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 024032 [View   PDF (98 kB)  ]

•	R-parity violation and the cosmological gravitino problem G. Moreau and M. Chemtob Published 26 December 2001 (13 pages) 024033 [View   PDF (224 kB)  ]

•	BPS kinks in the Gross-Neveu model Paul Fendley and Hubert Saleur Published 29 November 2001 (13 pages) 025001 [View   PDF (208 kB)  ]

•	No cosmological domain wall problem for weakly coupled fields Horacio Casini and Subir Sarkar Published 29 November 2001 (10 pages) 025002 [View   PDF (146 kB)  ]

•	Meson mass differences in two dimensional gauged four-Fermi models Kenichiro Aoki and Kenji Ito Published 19 December 2001 (11 pages) 025003 [View   PDF (144 kB)  ]

•	Boundary conditions in the Unruh problem N. B. Narozhny, A. M. Fedotov, B. M. Karnakov, V. D. Mur, and V. A. Belinskii Published 19 December 2001 (23 pages) 025004 [View   PDF (272 kB)  ]

•	Extended QCD versus Skyrme-Faddeev theory W. S. Bae, Y. M. Cho, and S. W. Kimm Published 20 December 2001 (11 pages) 025005 [View   PDF (118 kB)  ]

•	Infrared and ultraviolet cutoffs of quantum field theory J. M. Carmona and J. L. Cortés Published 21 December 2001 (5 pages) 025006 [View   PDF (52 kB)  ]

•	Creation of scalar and Dirac particles in the presence of a time varying electric field in an anisotropic Bianchi type I universe Víctor M. Villalba and Walter Greiner Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages) 025007 [View   PDF (74 kB)  ]

•	Scalar-tensor bimetric brane world cosmology Donam Youm Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages) 025008 [View   PDF (84 kB)  ]

•	Generalized Gell-Mann–Low theorem for relativistic bound states Axel Weber and Norbert E. Ligterink Published 26 December 2001 (14 pages) 025009 [View   PDF (180 kB)  ]

•	Renormalization in self-consistent approximation schemes at finite temperature: Theory Hendrik van Hees and Jörn Knoll Published 26 December 2001 (15 pages) 025010 [View   PDF (270 kB)  ]

•	Renormalization group flows for brane couplings Walter D. Goldberger and Mark B. Wise Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 025011 [View   PDF (109 kB)  ]

•	Coulomb gauge QCD, confinement, and the constituent representation Adam P. Szczepaniak and Eric S. Swanson Published 26 December 2001 (23 pages) 025012 [View   PDF (265 kB)  ]

•	Ultraviolet fixed point and generalized flow equation of quantum gravity O. Lauscher and M. Reuter Published 26 December 2001 (44 pages) 025013 [View   PDF (1081 kB)  ]

•	Thermal effects in low-temperature QED Jens O. Andersen Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 025014 [View   PDF (101 kB)  ]

•	Dynamical behavior of spatially inhomogeneous relativistic λφ4 quantum field theory in the Hartree approximation Luís M. Bettencourt, Karen Pao, and J. G. Sanderson Published 26 December 2001 (13 pages) 025015 [View   PDF (400 kB)  ]

•	Nonperturbative renormalization in a scalar model within light-front dynamics D. Bernard, Th. Cousin, V. A. Karmanov, and J.-F. Mathiot Published 26 December 2001 (12 pages) 025016 [View   PDF (149 kB)  ]

•	Anomalies and fermion content of grand unified theories in extra dimensions Nicolas Borghini, Yves Gouverneur, and Michel H. Tytgat Published 26 December 2001 (14 pages) 025017 [View   PDF (152 kB)  ]

•	Inflation and holography in string theory Bruno Carneiro da Cunha Published 28 November 2001 (7 pages) 026001 [View   PDF (91 kB)  ]

•	Open Wilson lines and generalized star product in noncommutative scalar field theories Youngjai Kiem, Soo-Jong Rey, Haru-Tada Sato, and Jung-Tay Yee Published 29 November 2001 (8 pages) 026002 [View   PDF (104 kB)  ]

•	Membranes wrapped on holomorphic curves Jerome P. Gauntlett, Nakwoo Kim, Stathis Pakis, and Daniel Waldram Published 19 December 2001 (10 pages) 026003 [View   PDF (128 kB)  ]

•	Exact string solutions in nontrivial backgrounds P. Bozhilov Published 21 December 2001 (12 pages) 026004 [View   PDF (156 kB)  ]

•	Brane-Skyrmions and wrapped states J. A. Cembranos, A. Dobado, and A. L. Maroto Published 21 December 2001 (15 pages) 026005 [View   PDF (241 kB)  ]

•	Metamorphosis of tachyon profile in unstable D9-branes Koji Hashimoto and Shinji Hirano Published 26 December 2001 (14 pages) 026006 [View   PDF (146 kB)  ]

•	Discrete moduli for type I compactifications Arjan Keurentjes Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 026007 [View   PDF (90 kB)  ]

•	ZN orbifold compactifications in AdS6 with a Gauss-Bonnet term Jihn E. Kim and Hyun Min Lee Published 26 December 2001 (8 pages) 026008 [View   PDF (105 kB)  ]

•	Viability of primordial black holes as short period gamma-ray bursts Anne M. Green Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 027301 [View   PDF (63 kB)  ]

•	Formation of cosmological mass condensation within a FRW universe: Exact general relativistic solutions S. Khakshournia and R. Mansouri Published 26 December 2001 (3 pages) 027302 [View   PDF (40 kB)  ]

•	Note on flat foliations of spherically symmetric spacetimes Viqar Husain, Asghar Qadir, and Azad A. Siddiqui Published 26 December 2001 (2 pages) 027501 [View   PDF (37 kB)  ]

•	Identity of the imaginary-time and real-time thermal propagators for scalar bound states in a one-generation Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model Bang-Rong Zhou Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 027701 [View   PDF (70 kB)  ]

•	Erratum: Some properties of a pole solution in six dimensions [Phys. Rev. D 64, 025012 (2001)] Shoichi Ichinose Published 21 December 2001 (1 pages) 029901 [View   PDF (13 kB) ]