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Formation and critical collapse of Skyrmions Piotr Bizoń and Tadeusz Chmaj Published 30 June 1998 (4 pages) 041501 [View   PDF (116 kB)  ]

Naked singularity formation in the collapse of a spherical cloud of counterrotating particles Tomohiro Harada, Hideo Iguchi, and Ken-ichi Nakao Published 15 July 1998 (5 pages) 041502 [View   PDF (121 kB)  ]

Conformal field theory correlators from classical scalar field theory on anti–de Sitter space W. Mück and K. S. Viswanathan Published 15 July 1998 (5 pages) 041901 [View   PDF (122 kB)  ]

•	Gravitational-wave versus binary-pulsar tests of strong-field gravity Thibault Damour and Gilles Esposito-Farèse Published 16 July 1998 (12 pages) 042001 [View   PDF (255 kB)  ]

•	Spacecraft Doppler tracking as a narrow-band detector of gravitational radiation Massimo Tinto and J. W. Armstrong Published 27 July 1998 (8 pages) 042002 [View   PDF (154 kB)  ]

•	Calculation of the Ostriker-Vishniac effect in cold dark matter models Andrew H. Jaffe and Marc Kamionkowski Published 10 July 1998 (10 pages) 043001 [View   PDF (215 kB)  ]

•	On the reliability of inflaton potential reconstruction Edmund J. Copeland, Ian J. Grivell, Edward W. Kolb, and Andrew R. Liddle Published 22 July 1998 (8 pages) 043002 [View   PDF (518 kB)  ]

•	Relativistic hydrodynamics in close binary systems: Analysis of neutron-star collapse G. J. Mathews, P. Marronetti, and J. R. Wilson Published 22 July 1998 (13 pages) 043003 [View   PDF (215 kB)  ]

•	Propagation of extragalactic high energy cosmic and γ rays Sangjin Lee Published 22 July 1998 (24 pages) 043004 [View   PDF (483 kB)  ]

•	Electromagnetic shocks in strong magnetic fields Jeremy S. Heyl and Lars Hernquist Published 28 July 1998 (10 pages) 043005 [View   PDF (198 kB)  ]

•	Electroweak origin of cosmological magnetic fields Ola Törnkvist Published 30 June 1998 (12 pages) 043501 [View   PDF (235 kB)  ]

•	Renormalization group approach in Newtonian cosmology Yasuhide Sota, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Kei-ichi Maeda, Tomomi Kurokawa, Masahiro Morikawa, and Akika Nakamichi Published 30 June 1998 (18 pages) 043502 [View   PDF (343 kB)  ]

•	Symmetries for generating string cosmologies E. J. Copeland, James E. Lidsey, and David Wands Published 1 July 1998 (11 pages) 043503 [View   PDF (223 kB)  ]

•	Relativistic second-order perturbations of the Einstein–de Sitter universe Sabino Matarrese, Silvia Mollerach, and Marco Bruni Published 13 July 1998 (22 pages) 043504 [View   PDF (407 kB)  ]

•	Superconducting cosmic strings with exotic spacetime Marcus J. Thatcher and Michael J. Morgan Published 15 July 1998 (9 pages) 043505 [View   PDF (180 kB)  ]

•	Evolution of the scale factor with a variable cosmological term J. M. Overduin and F. I. Cooperstock Published 15 July 1998 (23 pages) 043506 [View   PDF (453 kB)  ]

•	Prolonged decay and CP asymmetry I. Joichi, Sh. Matsumoto, and M. Yoshimura Published 22 July 1998 (17 pages) 043507 [View   PDF (333 kB)  ]

•	Evolution of a network of cosmic string loops E. J. Copeland, T. W. Kibble, and D. A. Steer Published 27 July 1998 (14 pages) 043508 [View   PDF (280 kB)  ]

•	Generalized Raychaudhuri and area change equations for classical brane models Elias Zafiris Published 28 July 1998 (8 pages) 043509 [View   PDF (174 kB)  ]

•	Sources for the Majumdar-Papapetrou space-times Metin Gürses Published 26 June 1998 (3 pages) 044001 [View   PDF (76 kB)  ]

•	Mode regularization, time slicing, Weyl ordering, and phase space path integrals for quantum-mechanical nonlinear sigma models Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Koenraad Schalm, and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Published 30 June 1998 (9 pages) 044002 [View   PDF (197 kB)  ]

•	Light deflection by gravitational waves from localized sources Thibault Damour and Gilles Esposito-Farèse Published 30 June 1998 (6 pages) 044003 [View   PDF (139 kB)  ]

•	Propagation of scalars in nonextremal black hole and black p-brane geometries Yuji Satoh Published 1 July 1998 (13 pages) 044004 [View   PDF (230 kB)  ]

•	Cauchy-perturbative matching and outer boundary conditions: Methods and tests M. E. Rupright, A. M. Abrahams, and L. Rezzolla Published 6 July 1998 (9 pages) 044005 [View   PDF (369 kB)  ]

•	Particle creation near the chronology horizon Sergey V. Sushkov Published 6 July 1998 (6 pages) 044006 [View   PDF (286 kB)  ]

•	Critical collapse of collisionless matter: A numerical investigation Gerhard Rein, Alan D. Rendall, and Jack Schaeffer Published 10 July 1998 (8 pages) 044007 [View   PDF (179 kB)  ]

•	Black holes with multiple charges and the correspondence principle Haisong Yang Published 13 July 1998 (13 pages) 044008 [View   PDF (198 kB)  ]

•	Hypothesis of path integral duality. II. Corrections to quantum field theoretic results K. Srinivasan, L. Sriramkumar, and T. Padmanabhan Published 13 July 1998 (16 pages) 044009 [View   PDF (274 kB)  ]

•	Free fields via canonical transformations of matter-coupled two-dimensional dilaton gravity models J. Cruz, J. M. Izquierdo, D. J. Navarro, and J. Navarro-Salas Published 15 July 1998 (7 pages) 044010 [View   PDF (153 kB)  ]

•	Extrema of mass, first law of black hole mechanics, and a staticity theorem in Einstein-Maxwell-axion-dilaton gravity Marek Rogatko Published 15 July 1998 (11 pages) 044011 [View   PDF (198 kB)  ]

•	Evaporation of a Kerr black hole by emission of scalar and higher spin particles Brett E. Taylor, Chris M. Chambers, and William A. Hiscock Published 15 July 1998 (9 pages) 044012 [View   PDF (178 kB)  ]

•	Lightlike signals in general relativity and cosmology C. Barrabès and P. A. Hogan Published 16 July 1998 (9 pages) 044013 [View   PDF (227 kB)  ]

•	Microfield dynamics of black holes R. Casadio and B. Harms Published 22 July 1998 (10 pages) 044014 [View   PDF (210 kB)  ]

•	Perturbations in the Kerr-Newman dilatonic black hole background: Maxwell waves, the dilaton background, and gravitational lensing R. Casadio and B. Harms Published 22 July 1998 (7 pages) 044015 [View   PDF (159 kB)  ]

•	Dynamical evolution of boson stars in Brans-Dicke theory Jayashree Balakrishna and Hisa-aki Shinkai Published 23 July 1998 (13 pages) 044016 [View   PDF (238 kB)  ]

•	Effects of anisotropy and spatial curvature on the pre-big-bang scenario Dominic Clancy, James E. Lidsey, and Reza Tavakol Published 24 July 1998 (8 pages) 044017 [View   PDF (165 kB)  ]

•	Late-time tails in gravitational collapse of a self-interacting (massive) scalar-field and decay of a self-interacting scalar hair Shahar Hod and Tsvi Piran Published 24 July 1998 (6 pages) 044018 [View   PDF (151 kB)  ]

•	Combining Cauchy and characteristic codes. V. Cauchy-characteristic matching for a spherical spacetime containing a perfect fluid Mark R. Dubal, Ray A. d’Inverno, and James A. Vickers Published 24 July 1998 (12 pages) 044019 [View   PDF (323 kB)  ]

•	Treating instabilities in a hyperbolic formulation of Einstein’s equations Mark A. Scheel, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Gregory B. Cook, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Saul A. Teukolsky Published 27 July 1998 (12 pages) 044020 [View   PDF (231 kB)  ]

•	Dynamic wormholes, antitrapped surfaces, and energy conditions David Hochberg and Matt Visser Published 28 July 1998 (14 pages) 044021 [View   PDF (256 kB)  ]

•	Chern-Simons number diffusion with hard thermal loops Guy D. Moore, Chaoran Hu, and Berndt Müller Published 30 June 1998 (24 pages) 045001 [View   PDF (415 kB)  ]

•	Domain-wall model in an asymptotic-free dynamics S. Aoki and K. Nagai Published 1 July 1998 (6 pages) 045002 [View   PDF (129 kB)  ]

•	Radiative correction to the Casimir force on a sphere M. Bordag and J. Lindig Published 6 July 1998 (16 pages) 045003 [View   PDF (293 kB)  ]

•	Time evolution of unstable particle decay seen with finite resolution I. Joichi, Sh. Matsumoto, and M. Yoshimura Published 6 July 1998 (12 pages) 045004 [View   PDF (252 kB)  ]

•	Euclidean supergravity in terms of Dirac eigenvalues Ion V. Vancea Published 8 July 1998 (14 pages) 045005 [View   PDF (264 kB)  ]

•	RG flow irreversibility, C theorem, and the topological nature of 4D N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory Giulio Bonelli and Marco Matone Published 10 July 1998 (4 pages) 045006 [View   PDF (117 kB)  ]

•	Path integral loop representation of 2+1 lattice non-Abelian gauge theories J. M. Aroca, Hugo Fort, and Rodolfo Gambini Published 10 July 1998 (9 pages) 045007 [View   PDF (183 kB)  ]

•	Classification of the N=1 Seiberg-Witten theories Csaba Csáki and Witold Skiba Published 10 July 1998 (9 pages) 045008 [View   PDF (191 kB)  ]

•	2D gravity and the extended formalism Fernando P. Devecchi Published 10 July 1998 (4 pages) 045009 [View   PDF (112 kB)  ]

•	Chern-Simons as a geometrical setup for three-dimensional gauge theories V. E. Lemes, C. Linhares de Jesus, S. P. Sorella, L. C. Vilar, and O. S. Ventura Published 15 July 1998 (11 pages) 045010 [View   PDF (184 kB)  ]

•	Exact flow equations and the U(1) problem J. M. Pawlowski Published 15 July 1998 (12 pages) 045011 [View   PDF (264 kB)  ]

•	Systematic study of theories with quantum modified moduli. II Benjamín Grinstein and Detlef R. Nolte Published 21 July 1998 (10 pages) 045012 [View   PDF (180 kB)  ]

•	Multiple scattering expansion of the self-energy at finite temperature Sangyong Jeon and Paul J. Ellis Published 22 July 1998 (17 pages) 045013 [View   PDF (428 kB)  ]

•	Supersymmetric particle in a spacetime with torsion and the index theorem Osvaldo Chandía and Jorge Zanelli Published 24 July 1998 (4 pages) 045014 [View   PDF (105 kB)  ]

•	Duality and superconvergence relation in supersymmetric gauge theories Motoi Tachibana Published 28 July 1998 (7 pages) 045015 [View   PDF (136 kB)  ]

•	Supersymmetric sum rules for electromagnetic multipoles Ioannis Giannakis, James T. Liu, and Massimo Porrati Published 28 July 1998 (5 pages) 045016 [View   PDF (156 kB)  ]

•	Explicit multimonopole solutions in SU(N) gauge theory Erick J. Weinberg and Piljin Yi Published 6 July 1998 (11 pages) 046001 [View   PDF (199 kB)  ]

•	Coulomb branch of N=2 supersymmetric product group theories from branes Joshua Erlich, Asad Naqvi, and Lisa Randall Published 7 July 1998 (10 pages) 046002 [View   PDF (224 kB)  ]

•	Cosmology of light moduli Kiwoon Choi, Eung Jin Chun, and Hang Bae Kim Published 10 July 1998 (9 pages) 046003 [View   PDF (177 kB)  ]

•	Supergravity and the large N limit of theories with sixteen supercharges Nissan Itzhaki, Juan M. Maldacena, Jacob Sonnenschein, and Shimon Yankielowicz Published 10 July 1998 (11 pages) 046004 [View   PDF (298 kB)  ]

•	Possible generalization of the superstring action to eleven dimensions A. A. Deriglazov and A. V. Galajinsky Published 21 July 1998 (10 pages) 046005 [View   PDF (203 kB)  ]

•	Boundary fields and renormalization group flow in the two-matrix model Sean M. Carroll, Miguel E. Ortiz, and Washington Taylor Published 27 July 1998 (15 pages) 046006 [View   PDF (265 kB)  ]

•	D-instanton partition functions Michael B. Green and Michael Gutperle Published 28 July 1998 (9 pages) 046007 [View   PDF (201 kB)  ]

•	Perturbations of solutions of the Einstein-Weyl equations: An example G. F. Torres del Castillo and J. C. Pérez-Pérez Published 27 July 1998 (4 pages) 047501 [View   PDF (132 kB)  ]

•	Easy way to solve two-loop vertex integrals Alfredo T. Suzuki and Alexandre G. Schmidt Published 27 July 1998 (3 pages) 047701 [View   PDF (68 kB)  ]

•	String tension and the generation of the conformal anomaly A. Nicolaidis, J. E. Paschalis, and P. I. Porfyriadis Published 28 July 1998 (3 pages) 047901 [View   PDF (84 kB)  ]