Volume 74, Issue 8

Fabien Cavalier, Matteo Barsuglia, Marie-Anne Bizouard, Violette Brisson, André-Claude Clapson, Michel Davier, Patrice Hello, Stephane Kreckelbergh, Nicolas Leroy, and Monica Varvella

Phys. Rev. D 74, 082004 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Coherent network analysis technique for discriminating gravitational-wave bursts from instrumental noise

Shourov Chatterji, Albert Lazzarini, Leo Stein, Patrick J. Sutton, Antony Searle, and Massimo Tinto

Phys. Rev. D 74, 082005 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

The charge ratio of the atmospheric muons at low energy

M. Bahmanabadi, F. Sheidaei, M. Khakian Ghomi, and J. Samimi

Phys. Rev. D 74, 082006 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Lyapunov indices with two nearby trajectories in a curved spacetime

X. Wu, T.-Y. Huang, and H. Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083001 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Pseudo- $C_{ℓ}$ estimators which do not mix E and B modes

Kendrick M. Smith

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083002 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Synchrotron and inverse Compton constraints on Lorentz violations for electrons

Brett Altschul

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083003 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Analytical formulas for gravitational lensing: Higher order calculation

Paolo Amore, Santiago Arceo, and Francisco M. Fernández

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083004 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Detecting gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries with a network of detectors: Coherent versus coincident strategies

Himan Mukhopadhyay, Norichika Sago, Hideyuki Tagoshi, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Hirotaka Takahashi, and Nobuyuki Kanda

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083005 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Analytic approach to the CMB polarization generated by relic gravitational waves

Wen Zhao and Yang Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083006 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Tidal tails test the equivalence principle in the dark-matter sector

Michael Kesden and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083007 (2006) - Published 27 October, 2006

Imprints of relic gravitational waves in cosmic microwave background radiation

D. Baskaran, L. P. Grishchuk, and A. G. Polnarev

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083008 (2006) - Published 27 October, 2006

Perfect magnetohydrodynamics as a field theory

Jacob D. Bekenstein and Gerold Betschart

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083009 (2006) - Published 27 October, 2006

Phantom dark energy models with negative kinetic term

Jens Kujat, Robert J. Scherrer, and A. A. Sen

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083501 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Can a vector field be responsible for the curvature perturbation in the Universe?

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083502 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Braneworld inflation from an effective field theory after WMAP three-year data

M. C. Bento, R. González Felipe, and N. M. C. Santos

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083503 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Analytic study of small scale structure on cosmic strings

Joseph Polchinski and Jorge V. Rocha

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083504 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Constraining pre-big-bang nucleosynthesis expansion using cosmic antiprotons

Mia Schelke, Riccardo Catena, Nicolao Fornengo, Antonio Masiero, and Massimo Pietroni

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083505 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Dark energy from Casimir energy on noncommutative extra dimensions

S. Fabi, B. Harms, and G. Karatheodoris

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083506 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Constraints on a scale invariant power spectrum from superinflation in loop quantum cosmology

David J. Mulryne and Nelson J. Nunes

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083507 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Reconstructing the dark energy equation of state with varying couplings

P. P. Avelino, C. J. A. P. Martins, N. J. Nunes, and K. A. Olive

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083508 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Inflation and WMAP three year data: Features are still present

Laura Covi, Jan Hamann, Alessandro Melchiorri, Anže Slosar, and Irene Sorbera

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083509 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Observational constraints on phantomlike braneworld cosmologies

Ruth Lazkoz, Roy Maartens, and Elisabetta Majerotto

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083510 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Cosmic-ray spectra of primary protons and high altitude muons deconvolved from observed atmospheric gamma rays

K. Yoshida, R. Ohmori, T. Kobayashi, Y. Komori, Y. Sato, and J. Nishimura

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083511 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

WMAP normalization of inflationary cosmologies

Andrew R. Liddle, David Parkinson, Samuel M. Leach, and Pia Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083512 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Model-independent dark energy reconstruction scheme using the geometrical form of the luminosity-distance relation

Stéphane Fay and Reza Tavakol

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083513 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Effect of a late decaying scalar on the neutralino relic density

Graciela Gelmini, Paolo Gondolo, Adrian Soldatenko, and Carlos E. Yaguna

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083514 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Anomalies in the low CMB multipoles and extended foregrounds

L. Raul Abramo, Laerte Sodré, Jr., and Carlos Alexandre Wuensche

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083515 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

About Starobinsky inflation

Daniel Müller and Sandro D. P. Vitenti

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083516 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Cosmological and astrophysical parameter measurements with 21-cm anisotropies during the era of reionization

Mário G. Santos and Asantha Cooray

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083517 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Phase-space distribution of unbound dark matter near the Sun

Moqbil S. Alenazi and Paolo Gondolo

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083518 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Confronting quintessence models with recent high-redshift supernovae data

G. Barro Calvo and A. L. Maroto

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083519 (2006) - Published 26 October, 2006

Thermodynamics of an accelerated expanding universe

Bin Wang, Yungui Gong, and Elcio Abdalla

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083520 (2006) - Published 27 October, 2006

Features in the dark energy equation of state and modulations in the Hubble diagram

Jun-Qing Xia, Gong-Bo Zhao, Hong Li, Bo Feng, and Xinmin Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083521 (2006) - Published 27 October, 2006

Second-order gauge-invariant perturbations during inflation

F. Finelli, G. Marozzi, G. P. Vacca, and G. Venturi

Phys. Rev. D 74, 083522 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Complete classification of purely magnetic, nonrotating, nonaccelerating perfect fluids

Lode Wylleman and Norbert Van den Bergh

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084001 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Particles as Wilson lines of the gravitational field

L. Freidel, J. Kowalski-Glikman, and A. Starodubtsev

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084002 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Quantum nature of the big bang: Improved dynamics

Abhay Ashtekar, Tomasz Pawlowski, and Parampreet Singh

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084003 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Is there a black hole minimum mass?

Tomohiro Harada

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084004 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Black hole evolution with the BSSN system by pseudospectral methods

Wolfgang Tichy

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084005 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Viscosity driven instability in rotating relativistic stars

Motoyuki Saijo and Eric Gourgoulhon

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084006 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

$N$ -body simulations of alternative gravity models

Hans F. Stabenau and Bhuvnesh Jain

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084007 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Towards a novel no-hair theorem for black holes

Thomas Hertog

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084008 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Partition functions, the Bekenstein bound and temperature inversion in anti-de Sitter space and its conformal boundary

G. W. Gibbons, M. J. Perry, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084009 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Final state boundary condition of the Schwarzschild black hole

Doyeol Ahn

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084010 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Gravitational diffraction radiation

Vitor Cardoso, Marco Cavaglià, and Mário Pimenta

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084011 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

One loop corrected mode functions for scalar QED during inflation

E. O. Kahya and R. P. Woodard

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084012 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Generalized Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi solutions with pressure

P. D. Lasky and A. W. C. Lun

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084013 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Fivebranes from gauge theory

Hai Lin and Juan Maldacena

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084014 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Probability of primordial black hole pair creation in a modified gravitational theory

B. C. Paul and Dilip Paul

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084015 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Thermodynamics of rotating solutions in $(n + 1)$ -dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity

A. Sheykhi, M. H. Dehghani, N. Riazi, and J. Pakravan

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084016 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

New derivation of the variational principle for the dynamics of a gravitating spherical shell

J. Kijowski, G. Magli, and D. Malafarina

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084017 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Second-order gravitational self-force

Eran Rosenthal

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084018 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Lagrangian for doubly special relativity particle and the role of noncommutativity

Subir Ghosh

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084019 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Lorentz symmetry derived from Lorentz violation in the bulk

Orfeu Bertolami and Carla Carvalho

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084020 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Gravitational perturbations of higher dimensional rotating black holes: Tensor perturbations

Hari K. Kunduri, James Lucietti, and Harvey S. Reall

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084021 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Numerical stability of the Alekseenko-Arnold evolution system compared to the ADM and BSSN systems

Nina Jansen, Bernd Brügmann, and Wolfgang Tichy

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084022 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Spin-orbit interactions in black-hole binaries

M. Campanelli, C. O. Lousto, and Y. Zlochower

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084023 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Towards noncommutative quantum black holes

J. C. López-Domínguez, O. Obregón, M. Sabido, and C. Ramírez

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084024 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Hierarchy in a double braneworld

Rommel Guerrero, Alejandra Melfo, Nelson Pantoja, and R. Omar Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084025 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Exact gravitational quasinormal frequencies of topological black holes

Danny Birmingham and Susan Mokhtari

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084026 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Two-dimensional gravity with a dynamical aether

Christopher Eling and Ted Jacobson

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084027 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Numerical study of the quasinormal mode excitation of Kerr black holes

Ernst Nils Dorband, Emanuele Berti, Peter Diener, Erik Schnetter, and Manuel Tiglio

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084028 (2006) - Published 24 October, 2006

Quasinormal modes for the Vaidya metric

Elcio Abdalla, Cecilia B. M. H. Chirenti, and Alberto Saa

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084029 (2006) - Published 25 October, 2006

Metric modifications for a massive spin 1 particle

Barry R. Holstein

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084030 (2006) - Published 25 October, 2006

Accelerating Taub-NUT and Eguchi-Hanson solitons in four dimensions

Brenda Chng, Robert Mann, and Cristian Stelea

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084031 (2006) - Published 27 October, 2006

Interacting dark energy in $f (R)$ gravity

Nikodem J. Popławski

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084032 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Quantum effective action in spacetimes with branes and boundaries: Diffeomorphism invariance

A. O. Barvinsky

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084033 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Geometrodynamics in a spherically symmetric, static crossflow of null dust

Zsolt Horváth, Zoltán Kovács, and László Á. Gergely

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084034 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Vacuum energy in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet anti–de Sitter gravity

Georgios Kofinas and Rodrigo Olea

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084035 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Partially massless spin-2 electrodynamics

S. Deser and A. Waldron

Phys. Rev. D 74, 084036 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Integrable models and confinement in $(2 + 1)$ -dimensional weakly-coupled Yang-Mills theory

Peter Orland

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085001 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Factorization in graviton scattering and the “natural” value of the $g$ factor

Barry R. Holstein

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085002 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Slowly decaying classical fields, unitarity, and gauge invariance

Dennis D. Dietrich

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085003 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Global topological $k$ -defects

E. Babichev

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085004 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Method of comparison equations for Schwarzschild black holes

Roberto Casadio and Mattia Luzzi

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085005 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Thermal operator and cutting rules at finite temperature and chemical potential

F. T. Brandt, Ashok Das, Olivier Espinosa, J. Frenkel, and Silvana Perez

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085006 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Massive Schwinger model with a finite inductance: theta (in)dependence, the $U (1)$ problem, and low-energy theorems

S. Khlebnikov

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085007 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Light element signatures of sterile neutrinos and cosmological lepton numbers

Christel J. Smith, George M. Fuller, Chad T. Kishimoto, and Kevork N. Abazajian

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085008 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Induced quantum numbers of a magnetic monopole at finite temperature

Yu. A. Sitenko, A. V. Solovyov, and N. D. Vlasii

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085009 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the linear sigma model at finite chemical potential: One-loop corrections

Tomáš Brauner

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085010 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Energy-momentum tensor for a Casimir apparatus in a weak gravitational field

Giuseppe Bimonte, Enrico Calloni, Giampiero Esposito, and Luigi Rosa

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085011 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Heavy quark diffusion in strongly coupled $N = 4$ Yang-Mills theory

Jorge Casalderrey-Solana and Derek Teaney

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085012 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Effects from inhomogeneities in the chiral transition

Bruno G. Taketani and Eduardo S. Fraga

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085013 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Color Skyrmions in the quark-gluon plasma

Jian Dai and V. P. Nair

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085014 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Sterile neutrinos, lepton asymmetries, primordial elements: How much of each?

Yi-Zen Chu and Marco Cirelli

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085015 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Stability of the normal vacuum in multi-Higgs-doublet models

A. Barroso, P. M. Ferreira, R. Santos, and João P. Silva

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085016 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Modified special relativity on a fluctuating spacetime

R. Aloisio, A. Galante, A. F. Grillo, S. Liberati, E. Luzio, and F. Méndez

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085017 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Towards the supersymmetric completion of the $R^{4}$ term in M theory

Arvind Rajaraman

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085018 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Standard model of particles and forces in the framework of two-time physics

Itzhak Bars

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085019 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Interacting two-time physics field theory with a BRST gauge invariant action

Itzhak Bars and Yueh-Cheng Kuo

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085020 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Bulk viscosity of high-temperature QCD

Peter Arnold, Çağlar Doğan, and Guy D. Moore

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085021 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

One loop gluon-gluon scattering in light cone gauge

J. Qiu

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085022 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Extra $Z$ bosons and low-energy tests of unification

S. M. Barr and Almas Khan

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085023 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Perturbative zero-point energy for a cylinder of elliptical section

Adrian R. Kitson and August Romeo

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085024 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Renormalized effective actions in radially symmetric backgrounds: Partial wave cutoff method

Gerald V. Dunne, Jin Hur, and Choonkyu Lee

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085025 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Renormalization in momentum dependent resummations

Antal Jakovác

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085026 (2006) - Published 25 October, 2006

Issues on 3D noncommutative electromagnetic duality

Davi C. Rodrigues and Clóvis Wotzasek

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085027 (2006) - Published 26 October, 2006

Chiral lattice gauge theories from warped domain walls and Ginsparg-Wilson fermions

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Matthew R Martin, and Erich Poppitz

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085028 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Lagrangian formulation of higher spin theories on AdS space

Angelos Fotopoulos, Kamal L. Panigrahi, and Mirian Tsulaia

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085029 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Two field BPS solutions for generalized Lorentz breaking models

A. de Souza Dutra, M. Hott, and F. A. Barone

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085030 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations between two uniformly accelerated oscillators

Serge Massar and Philippe Spindel

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085031 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Axial anomaly of QED in a strong magnetic field and noncommutative anomaly

N. Sadooghi and A. Jafari Salim

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085032 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Chiral transition of $N = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory with flavor on a 3-sphere

Andreas Karch and Andy O’Bannon

Phys. Rev. D 74, 085033 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Heavy quark potential at finite temperature from gauge-string duality

Henrique Boschi-Filho, Nelson R. F. Braga, and Cristine N. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086001 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Thermal $D$ -brane boundary states from Green-Schwarz superstrings

Ion V. Vancea

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086002 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Holographic framework for eternal inflation

Ben Freivogel, Yasuhiro Sekino, Leonard Susskind, and Chen-Pin Yeh

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086003 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Tensor mesons in AdS/QCD

Emanuel Katz, Adam Lewandowski, and Matthew D. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086004 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Modified $f (R)$ gravity consistent with realistic cosmology: From a matter dominated epoch to a dark energy universe

Shin’ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086005 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

CFT/AdS correspondence, massive gravitons, and a connectivity index conjecture

Ofer Aharony, Adam B. Clark, and Andreas Karch

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086006 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Decays of near BPS heterotic strings

Michael Gutperle and Darya Krym

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086007 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Four-dimensional effective M theory on a singular $G_{2}$ manifold

Lara B Anderson, Adam B Barrett, André Lukas, and Masahiro Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086008 (2006) - Published 24 October, 2006

Transition from a matter-dominated era to a dark energy universe

Shin’ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, and Hrvoje Štefančić

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086009 (2006) - Published 25 October, 2006

Domain walls, near-BPS bubbles, and probabilities in the landscape

Anna Ceresole, Gianguido Dall’Agata, Alexander Giryavets, Renata Kallosh, and Andrei Linde

Phys. Rev. D 74, 086010 (2006) - Published 26 October, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Averaging spherically symmetric spacetimes in general relativity

A. A. Coley and N. Pelavas

Phys. Rev. D 74, 087301 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

$f (R)$ gravity without a cosmological constant

Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz and Antonio Dobado

Phys. Rev. D 74, 087501 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Area evolution, bulk viscosity, and entropy principles for dynamical horizons

Eric Gourgoulhon and José Luis Jaramillo

Phys. Rev. D 74, 087502 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Relativistic three-body effects in black hole coalescence

Manuela Campanelli, Miranda Dettwyler, Mark Hannam, and Carlos O. Lousto

Phys. Rev. D 74, 087503 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Baryogenesis in $f (R)$ theories of gravity

G. Lambiase and G. Scarpetta

Phys. Rev. D 74, 087504 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Kink-antikink, trapping bags and five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Massimo Giovannini

Phys. Rev. D 74, 087505 (2006) - Published 25 October, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Scattering amplitudes and thermal temperatures of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes”

Marco Maceda

Phys. Rev. D 74, 088501 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Maxwell stress in Rindler space and the Archimedes Law [Phys. Rev. D 74, 025002 (2006)]

E. Eriksen and Ocsl. Grøn

Phys. Rev. D 74, 089901 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Erratum: Observational constraints on braneworld geometry [Phys. Rev. D 73, 044010 (2006)]

Gonzalo A. Palma

Phys. Rev. D 74, 089902 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Erratum: Static strings in Randall-Sundrum scenarios and the quark-antiquark potential [Phys. Rev. D 73, 106006 (2006)]

Henrique Boschi-Filho, Nelson R. F. Braga, and Cristine N. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. D 74, 089903 (2006) - Published 27 October, 2006