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Approaching Λ without fine-tuning Sabino Matarrese, Carlo Baccigalupi, and Francesca Perrotta Published 8 September 2004 (4 pages) 061301 [View   PDF (118 kB)  ]

Reconstructing and deconstructing dark energy Eric V. Linder Published 22 September 2004 (5 pages) 061302 [View   PDF (97 kB)  ]

Accretion of a ghost condensate by black holes Andrei V. Frolov Published 13 September 2004 (5 pages) 061501 [View   PDF (246 kB)  ]

Skyrmions and Faddeev-Hopf solitons R. S. Ward Published 7 September 2004 (4 pages) 061701 [View   PDF (138 kB)  ]

Quantum corrections to the mass of self-dual vortices A. Alonso Izquierdo, W. Garcia Fuertes, M. de la Torre Mayado, and J. Mateos Guilarte Published 24 September 2004 (5 pages) 061702 [View   PDF (102 kB)  ]

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Optimal combination of signals from colocated gravitational wave interferometers for use in searches for a stochastic background Albert Lazzarini, Sukanta Bose, Peter Fritschel, Martin McHugh, Tania Regimbau, Kaice Reilly, Joseph D. Romano, John T. Whelan, Stan Whitcomb, and Bernard F. Whiting Published 2 September 2004 (12 pages) 062001 [View   PDF (747 kB)  ]

•	LISA time-delay interferometry zero-signal solution: Geometrical properties Massimo Tinto and Shane L. Larson Published 15 September 2004 (13 pages) 062002 [View   PDF (342 kB)  ]

•	Direct measurement of the scattered light effect on the sensitivity in TAMA300 Ryutaro Takahashi, Koji Arai, Seiji Kawamura, and Michael R. Smith Published 15 September 2004 (4 pages) 062003 [View   PDF (134 kB)  ]

•	Two-dimensional Poynting flux dominated flow onto a Schwarzschild black hole Hyun Kyu Lee and Jaehong Park Published 1 September 2004 (8 pages) 063001 [View   PDF (338 kB)  ]

•	Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in WMAP and its effect on cosmological parameters Kevin M. Huffenberger, Uroš Seljak, and Alexey Makarov Published 16 September 2004 (10 pages) 063002 [View   PDF (292 kB)  ]

•	B polarization of the CMB from Faraday rotation Claudia Scóccola, Diego Harari, and Silvia Mollerach Published 16 September 2004 (9 pages) 063003 [View   PDF (237 kB)  ]

•	Cooling of a newborn compact star with a QCD phase transition K. -W. Wong and M. -C. Chu Published 22 September 2004 (16 pages) 063004 [View   PDF (616 kB)  ]

•	Cosmic attractors and gauge hierarchy Gia Dvali and Alexander Vilenkin Published 1 September 2004 (7 pages) 063501 [View   PDF (116 kB)  ]

•	Gauge invariant wave equations in curved space-times and primordial magnetic fields G. Lambiase and A. R. Prasanna Published 1 September 2004 (4 pages) 063502 [View   PDF (92 kB)  ]

•	Neutrinos from dark matter annihilations at the galactic center Gianfranco Bertone, Emmanuel Nezri, Jean Orloff, and Joseph Silk Published 2 September 2004 (8 pages) 063503 [View   PDF (2098 kB)  ]

•	Analysis of the Kamionkowski-Loeb method of reducing cosmic variance with CMB polarization Jamie Portsmouth Published 2 September 2004 (16 pages) 063504 [View   PDF (432 kB)  ]

•	Gravity in the dynamical approach to the cosmological constant Shinji Mukohyama Published 3 September 2004 (30 pages) 063505 [View   PDF (455 kB)  ]

•	Possible evidence for axino dark matter in the galactic bulge Dan Hooper and Lian-Tao Wang Published 3 September 2004 (4 pages) 063506 [View   PDF (104 kB)  ]

•	Renormalization group approach to inhomogeneous cosmology J. Ibáñez and S. Jhingan Published 7 September 2004 (7 pages) 063507 [View   PDF (121 kB)  ]

•	Particle decay in inflationary cosmology D. Boyanovsky and H. J. de Vega Published 13 September 2004 (16 pages) 063508 [View   PDF (236 kB)  ]

•	Cross-correlation studies between CMB temperature anisotropies and 21 cm fluctuations Asantha Cooray Published 7 September 2004 (10 pages) 063509 [View   PDF (222 kB)  ]

•	Determination of cosmological parameters from cosmic shear data Yong-Seon Song and Lloyd Knox Published 15 September 2004 (14 pages) 063510 [View   PDF (347 kB)  ]

•	Thermal leptogenesis with triplet Higgs boson and mass varying neutrinos Peihong Gu and Xiao-Jun Bi Published 15 September 2004 (6 pages) 063511 [View   PDF (989 kB)  ]

•	Search for small-mass black-hole dark matter with space-based gravitational wave detectors Naoki Seto and Asantha Cooray Published 15 September 2004 (5 pages) 063512 [View   PDF (111 kB)  ]

•	Phantom inflation and primordial perturbation spectrum Yun-Song Piao and Yuan-Zhong Zhang Published 17 September 2004 (6 pages) 063513 [View   PDF (225 kB)  ]

•	SuperWIMP gravitino dark matter from slepton and sneutrino decays Jonathan L. Feng, Shufang Su, and Fumihiro Takayama Published 15 September 2004 (14 pages) 063514 [View   PDF (485 kB)  ]

•	Cosmological perturbations through a simple bounce Laura E. Allen and David Wands Published 15 September 2004 (18 pages) 063515 [View   PDF (2129 kB)  ]

•	Spontaneous formation of domain wall lattices in two spatial dimensions Nuno D. Antunes and Tanmay Vachaspati Published 16 September 2004 (6 pages) 063516 [View   PDF (509 kB)  ]

•	Constraining Born-Infeld models of dark energy with CMB anisotropies L. Raul Abramo, Fabio Finelli, and Thiago S. Pereira Published 16 September 2004 (5 pages) 063517 [View   PDF (202 kB)  ]

•	Elastic inflation Andrei Gruzinov Published 16 September 2004 (5 pages) 063518 [View   PDF (97 kB)  ]

•	Dark matter relic abundance and scalar-tensor dark energy R. Catena, N. Fornengo, A. Masiero, M. Pietroni, and F. Rosati Published 16 September 2004 (13 pages) 063519 [View   PDF (428 kB)  ]

•	Conditions for a successful right-handed Majorana sneutrino curvaton John McDonald Published 16 September 2004 (11 pages) 063520 [View   PDF (181 kB)  ]

•	Oscillatory universes in loop quantum cosmology and initial conditions for inflation James E. Lidsey, David J. Mulryne, N. J. Nunes, and Reza Tavakol Published 17 September 2004 (6 pages) 063521 [View   PDF (514 kB)  ]

•	Mixed inflaton and curvaton perturbations David Langlois and Filippo Vernizzi Published 21 September 2004 (11 pages) 063522 [View   PDF (225 kB)  ]

•	Early reionization by cosmic strings reexamined Levon Pogosian and Alexander Vilenkin Published 20 September 2004 (6 pages) 063523 [View   PDF (102 kB)  ]

•	Did something decay, evaporate, or annihilate during big bang nucleosynthesis? Karsten Jedamzik Published 20 September 2004 (9 pages) 063524 [View   PDF (228 kB)  ]

•	Observational constraints on braneworld inflation: The effect of a Gauss-Bonnet term Shinji Tsujikawa, M. Sami, and Roy Maartens Published 22 September 2004 (10 pages) 063525 [View   PDF (343 kB)  ]

•	Intrinsic alignment-lensing interference as a contaminant of cosmic shear Christopher M. Hirata and Uroš Seljak Published 21 September 2004 (11 pages) 063526 [View   PDF (200 kB)  ]

•	Polynomial interpretation of multipole vectors Gabriel Katz and Jeff Weeks Published 21 September 2004 (6 pages) 063527 [View   PDF (117 kB)  ]

•	Can the universe afford inflation? Andreas Albrecht and Lorenzo Sorbo Published 21 September 2004 (10 pages) 063528 [View   PDF (149 kB)  ]

•	Studying the decay of the vacuum energy with the observed density fluctuation spectrum Reuven Opher and Ana Pelinson Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages) 063529 [View   PDF (83 kB)  ]

•	Dark energy and supermassive black holes Pedro F. González-Díaz Published 24 September 2004 (13 pages) 063530 [View   PDF (197 kB)  ]

•	Periodic standing-wave approximation: Overview and three-dimensional scalar models Zeferino Andrade, Christopher Beetle, Alexey Blinov, Benjamin Bromley, Lior M. Burko, Maria Cranor, Robert Owen, and Richard H. Price Published 1 September 2004 (14 pages) 064001 [View   PDF (841 kB)  ]

•	Nonlinear N-parameter spacetime perturbations: Gauge transformations Carlos F. Sopuerta, Marco Bruni, and Leonardo Gualtieri Published 2 September 2004 (6 pages) 064002 [View   PDF (117 kB)  ]

•	Exact relativistic static charged perfect fluid disks D. Vogt and P. S. Letelier Published 2 September 2004 (6 pages) 064003 [View   PDF (139 kB)  ]

•	Non-Riemannian geometry of vortex acoustics L. C. de Andrade Published 3 September 2004 (5 pages) 064004 [View   PDF (92 kB)   See Also: Erratum]

•	Weakly coupled metastable graviton Gregory Gabadadze Published 3 September 2004 (7 pages) 064005 [View   PDF (126 kB)  ]

•	Space-time geometry and thermodynamic properties of a self-gravitating ball of fluid in phase transition José D. Polanco, Patricio S. Letelier, and Maximiliano Ujevic Published 3 September 2004 (7 pages) 064006 [View   PDF (358 kB)  ]

•	Small black holes on branes: Is the horizon regular or singular? D. Karasik, C. Sahabandu, P. Suranyi, and L. C. Wijewardhana Published 3 September 2004 (9 pages) 064007 [View   PDF (140 kB)  ]

•	Einstein boundary conditions for the Einstein equations in the conformal-traceless decomposition Simonetta Frittelli and Roberto Gómez Published 3 September 2004 (13 pages) 064008 [View   PDF (185 kB)  ]

•	Accelerated expansion of the Universe in Gauss-Bonnet gravity M. H. Dehghani Published 7 September 2004 (6 pages) 064009 [View   PDF (112 kB)  ]

•	Correspondence between the adhesion model and the velocity dispersion for the cosmological fluid Takayuki Tatekawa Published 7 September 2004 (9 pages) 064010 [View   PDF (433 kB)  ]

•	Single-domain spectral method for black hole puncture data Marcus Ansorg, Bernd Brügmann, and Wolfgang Tichy Published 7 September 2004 (13 pages) 064011 [View   PDF (551 kB)  ]

•	Radius stabilization and brane running in the Randall-Sundrum type 1 model Iver Brevik, Kazuo Ghoroku, and Masanobu Yahiro Published 16 September 2004 (6 pages) 064012 [View   PDF (111 kB)  ]

•	Thermodynamics and stability of hyperbolic charged black holes Rong-Gen Cai and Anzhong Wang Published 10 September 2004 (14 pages) 064013 [View   PDF (215 kB)  ]

•	Smeared branes and the Gubser-Mitra conjecture Paul Bostock and Simon F. Ross Published 15 September 2004 (6 pages) 064014 [View   PDF (133 kB)  ]

•	Supermassive black holes from primordial black hole seeds Norbert Düchting Published 14 September 2004 (9 pages) 064015 [View   PDF (221 kB)  ]

•	Dynamical evolution of unstable self-gravitating scalar solitons Miguel Alcubierre, José A. González, and Marcelo Salgado Published 13 September 2004 (12 pages) 064016 [View   PDF (451 kB)  ]

•	Causal structure and gravitational waves in brane world cosmology Kiyotomo Ichiki and Kouji Nakamura Published 14 September 2004 (9 pages) 064017 [View   PDF (452 kB)  ]

•	Semiclassical and quantum field theoretic bounds for traversable Lorentzian stringy wormholes Kamal Kanti Nandi, Yuan-Zhong Zhang, and K. B. Vijaya Kumar Published 15 September 2004 (9 pages) 064018 [View   PDF (150 kB)  ]

•	Asymptotically (anti)-de Sitter solutions in Gauss-Bonnet gravity without a cosmological constant M. H. Dehghani Published 16 September 2004 (6 pages) 064019 [View   PDF (112 kB)  ]

•	Twist of a stationary black hole or ring in five dimensions Shinya Tomizawa, Yuki Uchida, and Tetsuya Shiromizu Published 15 September 2004 (5 pages) 064020 [View   PDF (96 kB)  ]

•	Low energy branes, effective theory, and cosmology Gonzalo A. Palma and Anne-Christine Davis Published 15 September 2004 (20 pages) 064021 [View   PDF (345 kB)  ]

•	Particles and energy fluxes from a conformal field theory perspective A. Fabbri, J. Navarro-Salas, and G. J. Olmo Published 15 September 2004 (9 pages) 064022 [View   PDF (270 kB)  ]

•	Instability of a four-dimensional de Sitter black hole with a conformally coupled scalar field Tom J. Harper, Paul A. Thomas, Elizabeth Winstanley, and Phil M. Young Published 15 September 2004 (8 pages) 064023 [View   PDF (150 kB)  ]

•	Quasinormal modes in pure de Sitter spacetimes Da-Ping Du, Bin Wang, and Ru-Keng Su Published 16 September 2004 (7 pages) 064024 [View   PDF (121 kB)  ]

•	Quasinormal behavior of massless scalar field perturbation in Reissner-Nordström anti-de Sitter spacetimes Bin Wang, Chi-Yong Lin, and C. Molina Published 16 September 2004 (10 pages) 064025 [View   PDF (334 kB)  ]

•	Surface Casimir densities and induced cosmological constant on parallel branes in AdS spacetime Aram A. Saharian Published 16 September 2004 (16 pages) 064026 [View   PDF (327 kB)  ]

•	Maxwell-Boltzmann gas with nonstandard self-interactions: A novel approach to galactic dark matter Alexander Balakin, Roberto A. Sussman, and Winfried Zimdahl Published 17 September 2004 (12 pages) 064027 [View   PDF (236 kB)  ]

•	Phasing of gravitational waves from inspiralling eccentric binaries Thibault Damour, Achamveedu Gopakumar, and Bala R. Iyer Published 17 September 2004 (23 pages) 064028 [View   PDF (823 kB)  ]

•	Extended holographic dark energy Yungui Gong Published 17 September 2004 (3 pages) 064029 [View   PDF (68 kB)  ]

•	Domain wall dynamics in brane world and nonsingular cosmological models Naoya Okuyama and Kei-ichi Maeda Published 17 September 2004 (11 pages) 064030 [View   PDF (560 kB)  ]

•	Quantum stress tensor for extreme 2D Reissner-Nordström black holes Roberto Balbinot, Serena Fagnocchi, Alessandro Fabbri, Sara Farese, and José Navarro-Salas Published 21 September 2004 (5 pages) 064031 [View   PDF (98 kB)  ]

•	Effects of stress tensor fluctuations upon focusing J. Borgman and L. H. Ford Published 21 September 2004 (14 pages) 064032 [View   PDF (206 kB)  ]

•	Symmetries and assisted inflation in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati braneworld model Ruth Lazkoz Published 21 September 2004 (6 pages) 064033 [View   PDF (111 kB)  ]

•	Hamiltonian treatment of collapsing thin shells in Lanczos-Lovelock theories Juan Crisóstomo, Sergio del Campo, and Joel Saavedra Published 22 September 2004 (8 pages) 064034 [View   PDF (142 kB)  ]

•	Time and “angular” dependent backgrounds from stationary axisymmetric solutions Octavio Obregón, Hernando Quevedo, and Michael P. Ryan Published 22 September 2004 (13 pages) 064035 [View   PDF (209 kB)  ]

•	Gravitational waves from a chaotic dynamical system Kenta Kiuchi and Kei-ichi Maeda Published 22 September 2004 (9 pages) 064036 [View   PDF (516 kB)  ]

•	Generalized Tomonaga-Schwinger equation from the Hadamard formula Luisa Doplicher Published 24 September 2004 (7 pages) 064037 [View   PDF (117 kB)  ]

•	Distorted black holes of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system J. Estevez-Delgado and T. Zannias Published 30 September 2004 (7 pages) 064038 [View   PDF (134 kB)  ]

•	Brane gravity, massless bulk scalar, and self-tuning of the cosmological constant Jihn E. Kim, Bumseok Kyae, and Qaisar Shafi Published 30 September 2004 (7 pages) 064039 [View   PDF (141 kB)  ]

•	Black hole-neutron star binaries in general relativity: Quasiequilibrium formulation Thomas W. Baumgarte, Monica L. Skoge, and Stuart L. Shapiro Published 30 September 2004 (18 pages) 064040 [View   PDF (317 kB)  ]

•	Condensation of gauge interacting massless fermions Fabio Siringo Published 1 September 2004 (7 pages) 065001 [View   PDF (124 kB)  ]

•	Limits on Lorentz violation from the highest energy cosmic rays Olivier Gagnon and Guy D. Moore Published 3 September 2004 (14 pages) 065002 [View   PDF (215 kB)  ]

•	Topological-charge anomalies in supersymmetric theories with domain walls K. Shizuya Published 20 September 2004 (9 pages) 065003 [View   PDF (157 kB)  ]

•	Late-time behavior of massive Dirac fields in a Schwarzschild background Jiliang Jing Published 15 September 2004 (8 pages) 065004 [View   PDF (164 kB)  ]

•	Three-dimensional scalar field theory model of center vortices and its relation to k-string tensions John M. Cornwall Published 10 September 2004 (17 pages) 065005 [View   PDF (278 kB)  ]

•	Quantization in a general light-front frame Ashok Das and Silvana Perez Published 13 September 2004 (11 pages) 065006 [View   PDF (168 kB)  ]

•	Space-time evolution of ultrarelativistic quantum dipoles in quantum electrodynamics B. Blok Published 15 September 2004 (9 pages) 065007 [View   PDF (139 kB)  ]

•	Topology in the little Higgs models Mark Trodden and Tanmay Vachaspati Published 14 September 2004 (6 pages) 065008 [View   PDF (158 kB)  ]

•	Vacuum fluctuations and Brownian motion of a charged test particle near a reflecting boundary Hongwei Yu and L. H. Ford Published 15 September 2004 (4 pages) 065009 [View   PDF (90 kB)  ]

•	Monopole-antimonopole chains and vortex rings Burkhard Kleihaus, Jutta Kunz, and Yasha Shnir Published 15 September 2004 (23 pages) 065010 [View   PDF (2565 kB)  ]

•	Gauge dependence of the fermion quasiparticle poles in hot gauge theories Shang-Yung Wang Published 15 September 2004 (8 pages) 065011 [View   PDF (140 kB)  ]

•	N=(1,1) super Yang-Mills theory in 1+1 dimensions at finite temperature John R. Hiller, Yiannis Proestos, Stephen Pinsky, and Nathan Salwen Published 15 September 2004 (7 pages) 065012 [View   PDF (475 kB)  ]

•	Gravitational trapping potential with arbitrary extra dimensions Douglas Singleton Published 15 September 2004 (6 pages) 065013 [View   PDF (114 kB)  ]

•	Lorentz contraction of bound states in 1+1 dimensional gauge theory M. Järvinen Published 17 September 2004 (7 pages) 065014 [View   PDF (161 kB)  ]

•	Seiberg-Witten-type maps for currents and energy-momentum tensors in noncommutative gauge theories Rabin Banerjee, Choonkyu Lee, and Hyun Seok Yang Published 21 September 2004 (8 pages) 065015 [View   PDF (133 kB)  ]

•	Vortex in Maxwell-Chern-Simons models coupled to external backgrounds F. Chandelier, Y. Georgelin, M. Lassaut, T. Masson, and J. C. Wallet Published 22 September 2004 (9 pages) 065016 [View   PDF (212 kB)  ]

•	Ambiguities and symmetry relations associated with fermionic tensor densities G. Dallabona and O. A. Battistel Published 21 September 2004 (16 pages) 065017 [View   PDF (229 kB)  ]

•	Some boundary effects in quantum field theory V. B. Bezerra and M. A. Rego-Monteiro Published 21 September 2004 (9 pages) 065018 [View   PDF (147 kB)  ]

•	Infrared behavior of the pressure in gϕ3_ theory reexamined H. Caldas and A. L. Mota Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages) 065019 [View   PDF (93 kB)  ]

•	Triply special relativity Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman and Lee Smolin Published 22 September 2004 (6 pages) 065020 [View   PDF (109 kB)  ]

•	Static potential in QED3 with nonminimal coupling D. Dalmazi Published 28 September 2004 (9 pages) 065021 [View   PDF (169 kB)  ]

•	Extending the Veneziano-Yankielowicz effective theory P. Merlatti and F. Sannino Published 29 September 2004 (9 pages) 065022 [View   PDF (139 kB)  ]

•	Quantum corrections to the universal hypermultiplet and superspace Lilia Anguelova, Martin Roček, and Stefan Vandoren Published 13 September 2004 (11 pages) 066001 [View   PDF (178 kB)  ]

•	Tachyon effective dynamics and de Sitter vacua Bruno Carneiro da Cunha Published 3 September 2004 (12 pages) 066002 [View   PDF (231 kB)  ]

•	N=2 supersymmetric sigma models and D-branes Noriko Nakayama and Katsuyuki Sugiyama Published 3 September 2004 (13 pages) 066003 [View   PDF (304 kB)  ]

•	Gauge theories on hyperbolic spaces and dual wormhole instabilities Alex Buchel Published 13 September 2004 (13 pages) 066004 [View   PDF (255 kB)  ]

•	Moduli stabilization with the string Higgs effect Scott Watson Published 17 September 2004 (8 pages) 066005 [View   PDF (137 kB)  ]

•	Nonsingular perturbations in a bouncing brane model T. J. Battefeld, S. P. Patil, and R. Brandenberger Published 16 September 2004 (11 pages) 066006 [View   PDF (181 kB)  ]

•	Deforming baryons into confining strings Sean A. Hartnoll and Rubén Portugues Published 15 September 2004 (8 pages) 066007 [View   PDF (193 kB)  ]

•	Raising anti–de Sitter vacua to de Sitter vacua in heterotic M theory Evgeny I. Buchbinder Published 15 September 2004 (16 pages) 066008 [View   PDF (219 kB)  ]

•	Bulk Kalb-Ramond field in the Randall-Sundrum scenario Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Siddhartha Sen, Somasri Sen, and Soumitra SenGupta Published 16 September 2004 (7 pages) 066009 [View   PDF (126 kB)  ]

•	Constraints and superspin for super Poincaré algebras in diverse dimensions Andrea Pasqua and Bruno Zumino Published 20 September 2004 (6 pages) 066010 [View   PDF (112 kB)  ]

•	An astronomical search for evidence of new physics: Limits on gravity-induced birefringence from the magnetic white dwarf RE J0317-853 Oliver Preuss, Mark P. Haugan, Sami K. Solanki, and Stefan Jordan Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages) 067101 [View   PDF (93 kB)  ]

•	Electric fields at the quark surface of strange stars in the color-flavor locked phase Vladimir V. Usov Published 15 September 2004 (3 pages) 067301 [View   PDF (75 kB)  ]

•	Scaling defect decay and the reionization history of the Universe P. P. Avelino and D. Barbosa Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages) 067302 [View   PDF (226 kB)  ]

•	Purely gravitational generalization of spin-rotation couplings J. Q. Shen Published 1 September 2004 (4 pages) 067501 [View   PDF (93 kB)  ]

•	Born-Infeld inspired bosonic action in a noncommutative geometry Emmanuel Serié, Thierry Masson, and Richard Kerner Published 16 September 2004 (4 pages) 067701 [View   PDF (166 kB)  ]