Volume 66, Issue 4

15 August 2002

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Density of cold dark matter

Alessandro Melchiorri and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. D 66, 041301(R) (2002) - Published 9 August, 2002

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Shape of a small universe: Signatures in the cosmic microwave background

R. Bowen and P. G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. D 66, 041302(R) (2002) - Published 23 August, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nonlinear r-modes in neutron stars: Instability of an unstable mode

Philip Gressman, Lap-Ming Lin, Wai-Mo Suen, N. Stergioulas, and John L. Friedman

Phys. Rev. D 66, 041303(R) (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

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Convergence and stability in numerical relativity

Gioel Calabrese, Jorge Pullin, Olivier Sarbach, and Manuel Tiglio

Phys. Rev. D 66, 041501(R) (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

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Stabilizing textures with magnetic fields

R. S. Ward

Phys. Rev. D 66, 041701(R) (2002) - Published 9 August, 2002

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Friction in inflaton equations of motion

Ian D. Lawrie

Phys. Rev. D 66, 041702(R) (2002) - Published 14 August, 2002

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Singularity threshold of the nonlinear sigma model using 3D adaptive mesh refinement

Steven L. Liebling

Phys. Rev. D 66, 041703(R) (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

ARTICLES

Neutrino damping rate at finite temperature and density

Eduardo S. Tututi, Manuel Torres, and Juan Carlos D’Olivo

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043001 (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

Numerical and analytical predictions for the large-scale Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect

Alexandre Refregier and Romain Teyssier

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043002 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Inflation, cold dark matter, and the central density problem

Andrew R. Zentner and James S. Bullock

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043003 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Size of the smallest scales in cosmic string networks

Xavier Siemens, Ken D. Olum, and Alexander Vilenkin

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043501 (2002) - Published 2 August, 2002

Semiclassical force for electroweak baryogenesis: Three-dimensional derivation

Kimmo Kainulainen, Tomislav Prokopec, Michael G. Schmidt, and Steffen Weinstock

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043502 (2002) - Published 5 August, 2002

Effect of the galactic halo modeling on the DAMA-NaI annual modulation result: An extended analysis of the data for weakly interacting massive particles with a purely spin-independent coupling

P. Belli, R. Cerulli, N. Fornengo, and S. Scopel

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043503 (2002) - Published 8 August, 2002

Big bang nucleosynthesis, matter-antimatter regions, extra relativistic species, and relic gravitational waves

Massimo Giovannini, Elina Keihänen, and Hannu Kurki-Suonio

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043504 (2002) - Published 9 August, 2002

Inflatonic solitons in running mass inflation

Kari Enqvist, Shinta Kasuya, and Anupam Mazumdar

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043505 (2002) - Published 9 August, 2002

Variable-speed-of-light cosmology and second law of thermodynamics

Donam Youm

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043506 (2002) - Published 12 August, 2002

Generalized Chaplygin gas, accelerated expansion, and dark-energy-matter unification

M. C. Bento, O. Bertolami, and A. A. Sen

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043507 (2002) - Published 14 August, 2002

Null string evolution in black hole and cosmological spacetimes

Mariusz P. Da̧browski and Izabela Próchnicka

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043508 (2002) - Published 14 August, 2002

Cosmic strings in a braneworld theory with metastable gravitons

Arthur Lue

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043509 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Non-Gaussian signatures in the cosmic background radiation from warm inflation

S. Gupta, A. Berera, A. F. Heavens, and S. Matarrese

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043510 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Is the universe inflating? Dark energy and the future of the universe

Dragan Huterer, Glenn D. Starkman, and Mark Trodden

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043511 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Inhomogeneous big bang nucleosynthesis and mutual ion diffusion

Elina Keihänen

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043512 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Primordial black holes in braneworld cosmologies: Formation, cosmological evolution, and evaporation

Raf Guedens, Dominic Clancy, and Andrew R. Liddle

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043513 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Inflation and braneworlds: Degeneracies and consistencies

Greg Huey and James E. Lidsey

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043514 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Variations of alpha in space and time

John D. Barrow, João Magueijo, and Håvard Bunes Sandvik

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043515 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Large lepton asymmetry from $Q$ -balls

M. Kawasaki, Fuminobu Takahashi, and Masahide Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043516 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Dimming of supernovae by photon-pseudoscalar conversion and the intergalactic plasma

Cédric Deffayet, Diego Harari, Jean-Philippe Uzan, and Matias Zaldarriaga

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043517 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Shear-free rotating inflation

Yuri N. Obukhov, Thoralf Chrobok, and Mike Scherfner

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043518 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Loop corrections to scalar quintessence potentials

Michael Doran and Jörg Jäckel

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043519 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Observational test of two-field inflation

David Wands, Nicola Bartolo, Sabino Matarrese, and Antonio Riotto

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043520 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Observational constraints on dark radiation in brane cosmology

K. Ichiki, M. Yahiro, T. Kajino, M. Orito, and G. J. Mathews

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043521 (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

Quintessence, superquintessence, and observable quantities in Brans-Dicke and nonminimally coupled theories

Diego F. Torres

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043522 (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

Planck-scale quintessence and the physics of structure formation

Constantinos Skordis and Andreas Albrecht

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043523 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Tracking quintessential inflation from brane worlds

N. J. Nunes and E. J. Copeland

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043524 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Inflaton condensate fragmentation in hybrid inflation models

John McDonald

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043525 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Brane world effective action at low energies and AdS/CFT correspondence

Sugumi Kanno and Jiro Soda

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043526 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Braneworld dynamics of inflationary cosmologies with exponential potentials

Naureen Goheer and Peter K. S. Dunsby

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043527 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Baryon bias and structure formation in an accelerating universe

Luca Amendola and Domenico Tocchini-Valentini

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043528 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Observational determination of squeezing in relic gravitational waves and primordial density perturbations

Sukanta Bose and L. P. Grishchuk

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043529 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Aspects of tachyonic inflation with an exponential potential

M. Sami, Pravabati Chingangbam, and Tabish Qureshi

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043530 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Big bang nucleosynthesis with Gaussian inhomogeneous neutrino degeneracy

Spencer D. Stirling and Robert J. Scherrer

Phys. Rev. D 66, 043531 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Angular momentum and energy-momentum densities as gauge currents

M. Calçada and J. G. Pereira

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044001 (2002) - Published 12 August, 2002

Zoom and whirl: Eccentric equatorial orbits around spinning black holes and their evolution under gravitational radiation reaction

Kostas Glampedakis and Daniel Kennefick

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044002 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Gauge dependence of the post-Newtonian radiative corrections and effective gravitational field of black holes

Kirill A. Kazakov

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044003 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Generalization of the Einstein-Straus model to anisotropic settings

Filipe C. Mena, Reza Tavakol, and Raül Vera

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044004 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Fate of the first traversible wormhole: Black-hole collapse or inflationary expansion

Hisa-aki Shinkai and Sean A. Hayward

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044005 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Thermodynamics of rotating charged black strings and (A)dS/CFT correspondence

M. H. Dehghani

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044006 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Is Einstein’s equivalence principle valid for a quantum particle?

Andrzej Herdegen and Jarosław Wawrzycki

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044007 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Radiative falloff of a scalar field in a weakly curved spacetime without symmetries

Eric Poisson

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044008 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Quasinormal modes of a small Schwarzschild–anti-de Sitter black hole

R. A. Konoplya

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044009 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Uniqueness of (dilatonic) charged black holes and black $p$ -branes in higher dimensions

Gary W. Gibbons, Daisuke Ida, and Tetsuya Shiromizu

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044010 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Classical black hole production in high-energy collisions

Douglas M. Eardley and Steven B. Giddings

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044011 (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

(Anti–)de Sitter black holes in higher derivative gravity and dual conformal field theories

Shin’ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044012 (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

Dynamics of spherically symmetric spacetimes: Hydrodynamics and radiation

Marcelo Salgado

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044013 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Asymptotical AdS space from nonlinear gravitational models with stabilized extra dimensions

U. Günther, P. Moniz, and A. Zhuk

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044014 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Perturbations of an exact solution for (2+1)-dimensional critical collapse

David Garfinkle and Carsten Gundlach

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044015 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Gauge field localization on Abelian vortices in six dimensions

Massimo Giovannini

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044016 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Scattering amplitudes and thermal temperatures of the Schwarzschild–de Sitter black holes

Won Tae Kim, John J. Oh, and Ki Hyuk Yee

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044017 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Nonunitary higher derivative gravity classically equivalent to Einstein gravity and its Newtonian limit

Sergio De Filippo and Filippo Maimone

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044018 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Gravity wave analogues of black holes

Ralf Schützhold and William G. Unruh

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044019 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Time without time: A stochastic clock model

Hans-Thomas Elze and Otavio Schipper

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044020 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Jacobi-like bar mode instability of relativistic rotating bodies

Dorota Gondek-Rosińska and Eric Gourgoulhon

Phys. Rev. D 66, 044021 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Weak instability in an expanding universe?

Bob Holdom

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045001 (2002) - Published 2 August, 2002

Supernova constraint on bulk Majorons

Steen Hannestad, Petteri Keränen, and Francesco Sannino

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045002 (2002) - Published 12 August, 2002

Neveu-Schwarz 5-branes in type-IIA supergravity and gravitational anomalies

M. Cariglia and K. Lechner

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045003 (2002) - Published 13 August, 2002

Fermions on a vortex ring

Len Pismen and Sergio Rica

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045004 (2002) - Published 14 August, 2002

Transport coefficients and ladder summation in hot gauge theories

Manuel A. Valle Basagoiti

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045005 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Magnetic catalysis and anisotropic confinement in QCD

V. A. Miransky and I. A. Shovkovy

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045006 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Bound state spectrum of the massive Thirring model in a rest frame

Makoto Hiramoto and Takehisa Fujita

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045007 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Far-from-equilibrium dynamics with broken symmetries from the $1 / N$ expansion of the 2PI effective action

Gert Aarts, Daria Ahrensmeier, Rudolf Baier, Jürgen Berges, and Julien Serreau

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045008 (2002) - Published 15 August, 2002

Chirality violation in QCD Reggeon interactions

Alan R. White

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045009 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Winding number and non-BPS bound states of walls in nonlinear sigma models

Norisuke Sakai and Ryo Sugisaka

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045010 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Transport equation and hard thermal loops in noncommutative Yang-Mills theory

F. T. Brandt, Ashok Das, J. Frenkel, D. G. C. McKeon, and J. C. Taylor

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045011 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002

Metastable strings in Abelian Higgs models embedded in non-Abelian theories: Calculating the decay rate

M. Shifman and Alexei Yung

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045012 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Kinetic terms for 2-forms in four dimensions

J. Fernando Barbero G. and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045013 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

D3-brane action in a supergravity background: The fermionic story

Mariana Graña

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045014 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Photons and gravitons as Goldstone bosons and the cosmological constant

Per Kraus and E. T. Tomboulis

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045015 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

First and second order vortex dynamics

Yoonbai Kim and Kimyeong Lee

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045016 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Perturbative computation of the gluonic effective action via Polyakov’s world-line path integral

S. D. Avramis, A. I. Karanikas, and C. N. Ktorides

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045017 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Testing spatial noncommutativity via the Aharonov-Bohm effect

H. Falomir, J. Gamboa, M. Loewe, F. Méndez, and J. C. Rojas

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045018 (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

Light-front formulation of the standard model

Prem P. Srivastava and Stanley J. Brodsky

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045019 (2002) - Published 20 August, 2002

Wess-Zumino term for AdS superstring

Machiko Hatsuda and Makoto Sakaguchi

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045020 (2002) - Published 22 August, 2002

Low-energy effective action in $N = 2$ super Yang-Mills theories on a non-Abelian background

A. T. Banin, I. L. Buchbinder, and N. G. Pletnev

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045021 (2002) - Published 23 August, 2002

Constraints on the variations of the fundamental couplings

Keith A. Olive, Maxim Pospelov, Yong-Zhong Qian, Alain Coc, Michel Cassé, and Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045022 (2002) - Published 23 August, 2002

Spectrum of a noncommutative formulation of the $D = 11$ supermembrane with winding

M. P. García del Moral and A. Restuccia

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045023 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Andreev reflection at the quark-gluon-plasma–color-flavor-locking interface

M. Sadzikowski and M. Tachibana

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045024 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Softly broken supersymmetric desert from orbifold compactification

Riccardo Barbieri, Lawrence J. Hall, and Yasunori Nomura

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045025 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Energy density in the Casimir effect

V. Sopova and L. H. Ford

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045026 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Propagators in noncommutative instantons

Bum-Hoon Lee and Hyun Seok Yang

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045027 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

O(4) texture with a cosmological constant

Inyong Cho

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045028 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Radion stabilization in compact hyperbolic extra dimensions

Salah Nasri, Pedro J. Silva, Glenn D. Starkman, and Mark Trodden

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045029 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Systematic study of the radion in the compact Randall-Sundrum model

Ashok Das and Alexander Mitov

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045030 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Covariantly quantized spinning particle and its possible connection to noncommutative space-time

Subir Ghosh

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045031 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Chiral phase transition in dissipative dynamics

G. Holzwarth and J. Klomfass

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045032 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Thermal energy of a scalar field in a one-dimensional compact space

E. Elizalde and A. C. Tort

Phys. Rev. D 66, 045033 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Twisting $E_{8}$ five-branes

Arjan Keurentjes and Savdeep Sethi

Phys. Rev. D 66, 046001 (2002) - Published 9 August, 2002

Penrose limit, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and holography in a $pp$ -wave background

Sumit R. Das, Cesar Gomez, and Soo-Jong Rey

Phys. Rev. D 66, 046002 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

String and brane models with spontaneously or dynamically induced tension

E. I. Guendelman, A. Kaganovich, E. Nissimov, and S. Pacheva

Phys. Rev. D 66, 046003 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

$pp$ waves and holography

Robert G. Leigh, Kazumi Okuyama, and Moshe Rozali

Phys. Rev. D 66, 046004 (2002) - Published 19 August, 2002

Density perturbations in the ekpyrotic scenario

Justin Khoury, Burt A. Ovrut, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. D 66, 046005 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Extension of boundary string field theory on disc and ${RP}^{2}$ worldsheet geometries

H. Itoyama and S. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. D 66, 046006 (2002) - Published 26 August, 2002

Violations of the equivalence principle in a dilaton-runaway scenario

T. Damour, F. Piazza, and G. Veneziano

Phys. Rev. D 66, 046007 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

BRIEF REPORTS

Activated sphalerons and large extra dimensions

Tomohiro Matsuda

Phys. Rev. D 66, 047301 (2002) - Published 14 August, 2002

Clustering of dark energy

F. G. Alvarenga, J. C. Fabris, S. V. B. Gonçalves, and G. Tadaiesky

Phys. Rev. D 66, 047302 (2002) - Published 14 August, 2002

Fundamental time asymmetry from nontrivial space topology

F. R. Klinkhamer

Phys. Rev. D 66, 047701 (2002) - Published 9 August, 2002

Photon-axion oscillations and type Ia supernovae

Edvard Mörtsell, Lars Bergström, and Ariel Goobar

Phys. Rev. D 66, 047702 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Thermal and quantum fluctuations around domain walls [Phys. Rev. D 65, 065021 (2002)]

Carlos A. A. de Carvalho

Phys. Rev. D 66, 049901 (2002) - Published 9 August, 2002

Erratum: Integro-differential equation for brane-world cosmological perturbations [Phys. Rev. D 64, 064006 (2001)]

Shinji Mukohyama

Phys. Rev. D 66, 049902 (2002) - Published 16 August, 2002