Volume 78, Issue 10

15 November 2008

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Can proper motions of dark-matter subhalos be detected?

Shin’ichiro Ando, Marc Kamionkowski, Samuel K. Lee, and Savvas M. Koushiappas

Phys. Rev. D 78, 101301(R) (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

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Prompt high-energy neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts in photospheric and synchrotron self-Compton scenarios

Kohta Murase

Phys. Rev. D 78, 101302(R) (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

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High-velocity collision of two black holes

Masaru Shibata, Hirotada Okawa, and Tetsuro Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. D 78, 101501(R) (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

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Bounding the greybody factors for Schwarzschild black holes

Petarpa Boonserm and Matt Visser

Phys. Rev. D 78, 101502(R) (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

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Spin-squared Hamiltonian of next-to-leading order gravitational interaction

Jan Steinhoff, Steven Hergt, and Gerhard Schäfer

Phys. Rev. D 78, 101503(R) (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

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Consistent decoupling of heavy scalars and moduli in $N = 1$ supergravity

Ana Achúcarro, Sjoerd Hardeman, and Kepa Sousa

Phys. Rev. D 78, 101901(R) (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

ARTICLES

Spacetime encodings. I. A spacetime reconstruction problem

Jeandrew Brink

Phys. Rev. D 78, 102001 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Spacetime encodings. II. Pictures of integrability

Jeandrew Brink

Phys. Rev. D 78, 102002 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Thermo-optic noise in coated mirrors for high-precision optical measurements

M. Evans, S. Ballmer, M. Fejer, P. Fritschel, G. Harry, and G. Ogin

Phys. Rev. D 78, 102003 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Constraining long-range parity violation in gravitation using high resolution spectroscopy of chiral molecules

Pedro Bargueño and Ricardo Pérez de Tudela

Phys. Rev. D 78, 102004 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Parameter-space correlations of the optimal statistic for continuous gravitational-wave detection

Holger J. Pletsch

Phys. Rev. D 78, 102005 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Thermal analysis of the Pioneer anomaly: A method to estimate radiative momentum transfer

O. Bertolami, F. Francisco, P. J. S. Gil, and J. Páramos

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103001 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Description of our cosmological spacetime as a perturbed conformal Newtonian metric and implications for the backreaction proposal for the accelerating universe

Edward W. Kolb, Valerio Marra, and Sabino Matarrese

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103002 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

$γ$ -ray polarization constraints on Planck scale violations of special relativity

Luca Maccione, Stefano Liberati, Annalisa Celotti, John G. Kirk, and Pietro Ubertini

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103003 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Electron and photon energy deposition in the Universe

Toru Kanzaki and Masahiro Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103004 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Comparison of approximate gravitational lens equations and a proposal for an improved new one

V. Bozza

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103005 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Light deflection, lensing, and time delays from gravitational potentials and Fermat’s principle in the presence of a cosmological constant

Mustapha Ishak

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103006 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

How precisely can neutrino emission from supernova remnants be constrained by gamma ray observations?

F. L. Villante and F. Vissani

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103007 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

Stochastic inflation and dimensional reduction

Florian Kühnel and Dominik J. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103501 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Two new diagnostics of dark energy

Varun Sahni, Arman Shafieloo, and Alexei A. Starobinsky

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103502 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Baryon acoustic signature in the clustering of density maxima

Vincent Desjacques

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103503 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Needlet detection of features in the WMAP CMB sky and the impact on anisotropies and hemispherical asymmetries

Davide Pietrobon, Alexandre Amblard, Amedeo Balbi, Paolo Cabella, Asantha Cooray, and Domenico Marinucci

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103504 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Clustering properties of a sterile neutrino dark matter candidate

D. Boyanovsky

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103505 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Thick DGP braneworlds

Israel Quiros and Tonatiuh Matos

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103506 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Inflationary spectra from Lorentz violating dissipative models

Julian Adamek, David Campo, Jens C. Niemeyer, and Renaud Parentani

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103507 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Dynamics of domain wall networks with junctions

P. P. Avelino, C. J. A. P. Martins, J. Menezes, R. Menezes, and J. C. R. E. Oliveira

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103508 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Challenges to the DGP model from horizon-scale growth and geometry

Wenjuan Fang, Sheng Wang, Wayne Hu, Zoltán Haiman, Lam Hui, and Morgan May

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103509 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Velocity-dependent models for non-Abelian/entangled string networks

A. Avgoustidis and E. P. S. Shellard

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103510 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Evolution of the 21 cm signal throughout cosmic history

Jonathan R. Pritchard and Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103511 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Nonlinear redshift-space power spectra

J. Richard Shaw and Antony Lewis

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103512 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Long wavelength limit of evolution of nonlinear cosmological perturbations

Takashi Hamazaki

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103513 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Polymer quantum dynamics of the Taub universe

Marco Valerio Battisti, Orchidea Maria Lecian, and Giovanni Montani

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103514 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Gravitational production of Kaluza-Klein states

Cosimo Bambi and Federico R. Urban

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103515 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Cosmological $C P T$ violating effect on CMB polarization

Mingzhe Li and Xinmin Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103516 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Schwinger pair production in $d S_{2}$ and $A d S_{2}$

Sang Pyo Kim and Don N. Page

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103517 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Unifying cosmological and recent time variations of fundamental couplings

Thomas Dent, Steffen Stern, and Christof Wetterich

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103518 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Single-field inflation after the WMAP five-year data

Laila Alabidi and James E. Lidsey

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103519 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

New positron spectral features from supersymmetric dark matter: A way to explain the PAMELA data?

Lars Bergström, Torsten Bringmann, and Joakim Edsjö

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103520 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Multipoint propagators in cosmological gravitational instability

Francis Bernardeau, Martín Crocce, and Román Scoccimarro

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103521 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Effects of particle production during inflation

Antonio Enea Romano and Misao Sasaki

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103522 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Matter power spectrum for the generalized Chaplygin gas model: The Newtonian approach

J. C. Fabris, S. V. B. Gonçalves, H. E. S. Velten, and W. Zimdahl

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103523 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

Effect of early dark matter halos on reionization

Aravind Natarajan and Dominik J. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103524 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

Gravity waves signatures from anisotropic preinflation

A. E. Gümrükçüoğlu, L. Kofman, and M. Peloso

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103525 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Antimatter cosmic rays from dark matter annihilation: First results from an N-body experiment

J. Lavalle, E. Nezri, E. Athanassoula, F.-S. Ling, and R. Teyssier

Phys. Rev. D 78, 103526 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Dark spinors with torsion in cosmology

Christian G. Böhmer and James Burnett

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104001 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Spinning branes in Riemann-Cartan spacetime

Milovan Vasilić and Marko Vojinović

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104002 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Phantom stars and topology change

Andrew DeBenedictis, Remo Garattini, and Francisco S. N. Lobo

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104003 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Gravitational lenses in generalized Einstein-aether theory: The bullet cluster

De-Chang Dai, Reijiro Matsuo, and Glenn Starkman

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104004 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Interacting field theories in de Sitter space are nonunitary

Emil T. Akhmedov and P. V. Buividovich

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104005 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Evolving Lorentzian wormholes supported by phantom matter with constant state parameters

Mauricio Cataldo, Pedro Labraña, Sergio del Campo, Juan Crisostomo, and Patricio Salgado

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104006 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Comparison between numerical-relativity and post-Newtonian waveforms from spinning binaries: The orbital hang-up case

Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Bernd Brügmann, and Achamveedu Gopakumar

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104007 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Constructing a counterexample to the black hole complementarity

Dong-han Yeom and Heeseung Zoe

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104008 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Spin-foam models and the physical scalar product

Emanuele Alesci, Karim Noui, and Francesco Sardelli

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104009 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Quasilocal energy flux of spacetime perturbation

Roh-Suan Tung and Hoi-Lai Yu

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104010 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Geodesic congruences in the Palatini $f (R)$ theory

Fatimah Shojai and Ali Shojai

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104011 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Tachyonic decay of unstable Dirichlet branes

William Nelson and Mairi Sakellariadou

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104012 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Extremal dyonic black holes in $D = 4$ Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Chiang-Mei Chen, Dmitri V. Gal’tsov, and Dmitry G. Orlov

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104013 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Equations of motion in general relativity of a small charged black hole

T. Futamase, P. A. Hogan, and Y. Itoh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104014 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Evolving black hole-neutron star binaries in general relativity using pseudospectral and finite difference methods

Matthew D. Duez, Francois Foucart, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, and Saul A. Teukolsky

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104015 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Excision boundary conditions for the conformal metric

Gregory B. Cook and Thomas W. Baumgarte

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104016 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Stability of higher dimensional Reissner-Nordström-anti-de Sitter black holes

R. A. Konoplya and A. Zhidenko

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104017 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Is gravitational entropy quantized?

Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan, and Sudipta Sarkar

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104018 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Structure of neutron stars in tensor-vector-scalar theory

Paul D. Lasky, Hajime Sotani, and Dimitrios Giannios

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104019 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

High-accuracy numerical simulation of black-hole binaries: Computation of the gravitational-wave energy flux and comparisons with post-Newtonian approximants

Michael Boyle, Alessandra Buonanno, Lawrence E. Kidder, Abdul H. Mroué, Yi Pan, Harald P. Pfeiffer, and Mark A. Scheel

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104020 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

$f (R)$ gravity and chameleon theories

Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, Anne-Christine Davis, and Douglas J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104021 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Approximate Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation of the Dirac Hamiltonian in general spacetimes

M. Buhl, H.-H. v. Borzeszkowski, and T. Chrobok

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104022 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Semiclassical limit of 4-dimensional spin foam models

Florian Conrady and Laurent Freidel

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104023 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Escape of photons from two fixed extreme Reissner-Nordström black holes

Daniel Alonso, Antonia Ruiz, and Manuel Sánchez-Hernández

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104024 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Gravitational wave recoil in Robinson-Trautman spacetimes

Rodrigo P. Macedo and Alberto Saa

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104025 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Reexamination of polytropic spheres in Palatini $f (R)$ gravity

Gonzalo J. Olmo

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104026 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

Ultrahard fluid and scalar field in the Kerr-Newman metric

E. Babichev, S. Chernov, V. Dokuchaev, and Yu. Eroshenko

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104027 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Perturbation method for classical spinning particle motion. I. Kerr space-time

Dinesh Singh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104028 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Perturbation method for classical spinning particle motion. II. Vaidya space-time

Dinesh Singh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104029 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Supersymmetric Gödel and warped black holes in string theory

Geoffrey Compère, Mauricio Romo, and Stéphane Detournay

Phys. Rev. D 78, 104030 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Stable de Sitter vacua in four-dimensional supergravity originating from five dimensions

O. Ögetbil

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105001 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Kaluza-Klein model with spontaneous symmetry breaking: Light-particle effective actionand its compactification scale dependence

Ratindranath Akhoury and Christopher S. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105002 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Dynamical symmetries in noncommutative theories

Ricardo Amorim

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105003 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Intersecting solitons, amoeba, and tropical geometry

Toshiaki Fujimori, Muneto Nitta, Kazutoshi Ohta, Norisuke Sakai, and Masahito Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105004 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

One-loop renormalization of Lee-Wick gauge theory

Benjamín Grinstein and Donal O’Connell

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105005 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Phase diagram of the Dirac spectrum at nonzero chemical potential

J. C. Osborn, K. Splittorff, and J. J. M. Verbaarschot

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105006 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Fermionic vacuum polarization by a cylindrical boundary in the cosmic string spacetime

E. R. Bezerra de Mello, V. B. Bezerra, A. A. Saharian, and A. S. Tarloyan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105007 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Model for the motion of a particle in a quantum background

Karim Noui

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105008 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in light front field theory

Ľubomír Martinovič

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105009 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Gravitational radiation in $d > 4$ from effective field theory

Vitor Cardoso, Óscar J. C. Dias, and Pau Figueras

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105010 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Scaling limit of $N = 6$ superconformal Chern-Simons theories and Lorentzian Bagger-Lambert theories

Yoshinori Honma, Satoshi Iso, Yoske Sumitomo, and Sen Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105011 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Thermodynamics of k-essence

Neven Bilić

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105012 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Effective action of QED in electric field backgrounds

Sang Pyo Kim, Hyun Kyu Lee, and Yongsung Yoon

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105013 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Classical solutions for the Lorentz-violating and $C P T$ -even term of the standard model extension

Rodolfo Casana, Manoel M. Ferreira, Jr, and Carlos E. H. Santos

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105014 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Yukawa corrections from four-point functions in intersecting D6-brane models

Ching-Ming Chen, Tianjun Li, V. E. Mayes, and D. V. Nanopoulos

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105015 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Kaon condensation in the linear sigma model at finite density and temperature

Tran Huu Phat, Nguyen Van Long, Nguyen Tuan Anh, and Le Viet Hoa

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105016 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

On matrix model formulations of noncommutative Yang-Mills theories

Tatsuo Azeyanagi, Masanori Hanada, and Tomoyoshi Hirata

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105017 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Noncommutative $Q$ -lumps

Seçkin Kürkçüoğlu

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105018 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Manifest ultraviolet behavior for the three-loop four-point amplitude of $N = 8$ supergravity

Z. Bern, J. J. M. Carrasco, L. J. Dixon, H. Johansson, and R. Roiban

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105019 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Thermal phase transition in a QCD-like holographic model

Nick Evans and Ed Threlfall

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105020 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Test of quantum effects of spatial noncommutativity using modified electron momentum spectroscopy

Jian-Zu Zhang, Ke-Lin Gao, and Chuan-Gang Ning

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105021 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Leading singularities of the two-loop six-particle maximally helicity violating amplitude

Freddy Cachazo, Marcus Spradlin, and Anastasia Volovich

Phys. Rev. D 78, 105022 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

$N = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory from the plane wave matrix model

Takaaki Ishii, Goro Ishiki, Shinji Shimasaki, and Asato Tsuchiya

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106001 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Alternative path to the boundary: The CFT as the Fourier transform in AdS space

Ian M. Tolfree

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106002 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity waves and string inflation

Eva Silverstein and Alexander Westphal

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106003 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Free-field realization of the $o s p (2 n | 2 n)$ current algebra

Wen-Li Yang and Yao-Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106004 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Gravity duals of Lifshitz-like fixed points

Shamit Kachru, Xiao Liu, and Michael Mulligan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106005 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Characteristic length of an AdS/CFT superconductor

Kengo Maeda and Takashi Okamura

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106006 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Dynamic critical phenomena in the AdS/CFT duality

Kengo Maeda, Makoto Natsuume, and Takashi Okamura

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106007 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Non-Abelian D-branes, open strings, and gauge theory

Charles B. Thorn

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106008 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Three-dimensional $N = 6$ superconformal field theories and their membrane dynamics

David Berenstein and Diego Trancanelli

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106009 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Shadows, currents, and AdS fields

R. R. Metsaev

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106010 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Building a nest at tree level: Classical metastability and nontrivial vacuum structure in supersymmetric field theories

Keith R. Dienes and Brooks Thomas

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106011 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Note on the reduction of the ${AdS}_{4} \times {C P}^{3}$ string $σ$ -model

R. C. Rashkov

Phys. Rev. D 78, 106012 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Energy-momentum tensor for a scalar Casimir apparatus in a weak gravitational field: Neumann conditions

George M. Napolitano, Giampiero Esposito, and Luigi Rosa

Phys. Rev. D 78, 107701 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Hawking-Moss tunneling with a Dirac-Born-Infeld action

Daniel Wohns

Phys. Rev. D 78, 107702 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Nonlinear perturbation theory with halo bias and redshift-space distortions via the Lagrangian picture [Phys. Rev. D 78, 083519 (2008)]

Takahiko Matsubara

Phys. Rev. D 78, 109901 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Erratum: Evolution of circular, nonequatorial orbits of Kerr black holes due to gravitational-wave emission [Phys. Rev. D 61, 084004 (2000)]

Scott A. Hughes

Phys. Rev. D 78, 109902 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Erratum: Boosted black holes on Kaluza-Klein bubbles [Phys. Rev. D 76, 124019 (2007)]

Hideo Iguchi, Takashi Mishima, and Shinya Tomizawa

Phys. Rev. D 78, 109903 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008