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Table of Contents (Print) PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW D Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, PHYSICAL REVIEW D please see inside front cover APS Subscription Services (ISSN: 1550-7998) Suite 1NO1 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 70, NUMBER 10 CONTENTS D15 NOVEMBER 2004 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Scaling dark energy (5 pages) .................................................................... 101301 Salvatore Capozziello, Alessandro Melchiorri, and Alice Schirone Can the universe experience many cycles with different vacua? (5 pages) . 101302 Yun-Song Piao How a brane cosmological constant can trick us into thinking that w<ÿ1 (5 pages) . 101501 Arthur Lue and Glenn D. Starkman How to make a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole (5 pages) . 101502 Sean A. Hayward and Hiroko Koyama Gauge invariance and the Pauli-Villars regulator in Lorentz- and CPT-violating electrodynamics (5 pages) . 101701 B. Altschul ARTICLES Finite mass beam splitter in high power interferometers (9 pages) . 102001 Jan Harms, Roman Schnabel, and Karsten Danzmann Simulations of laser locking to a LISA arm (7 pages) . 102002 Julien Sylvestre Algebraic approach to time-delay data analysis for orbiting LISA (16 pages) . 102003 K. Rajesh Nayak and J-Y. Vinet Reconstructing the primordial spectrum with CMB temperature and polarization (11 pages) . 103001 Noriyuki Kogo, Misao Sasaki, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama CMB power spectrum estimation using noncircular beams (18 pages) . 103002 Sanjit Mitra, Anand S. Sengupta, and Tarun Souradeep Comparative study of radio pulses from simulated hadron-, electron-, and neutrino-initiated showers in ice in the GeV-PeV range (8 pages) ..................................................................... 103003 Shahid Hussain and Douglas W. McKay Cross-correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: Weak gravitational lensing (24 pages) . 103501 Christopher M. Hirata, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Urosˇ Seljak, David Schlegel, and Jonathan Brinkmann Difficulties with recollapsing models in closed isotropic loop quantum cosmology (7 pages) . 103502 Daniel Green and William G. Unruh Accelerated cosmological models in Ricci squared gravity (13 pages) . 103503 Gianluca Allemandi, Andrzej Borowiec, and Mauro Francaviglia Bouncing universes and their perturbations: A simple model reexamined (6 pages) . 103504 Nathalie Deruelle and Andreas Streich Scalar speed limits and cosmology: Acceleration from D-cceleration (18 pages) . 103505 Eva Silverstein and David Tong Copyright 2004 by The American Physical Society (Continued) 1550-7998(20041115)70:10;1-2 CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 70, NUMBER 10 D15 NOVEMBER 2004 Radiation back reaction on moving branes (9 pages) . 103506 Ian G. Moss and James P Norman Asymmetric D-braneworld (6 pages) ............................................................... 103507 Keitaro Takahashi and Tetsuya Shiromizu Dumping inflaton energy density out of this world (7 pages) . 103508 Kari Enqvist, Anupam Mazumdar, and Abdel Pe´rez-Lorenzana Vector fluctuations from multidimensional curvature bounces (12 pages) . 103509 Massimo Giovannini Curvaton and QCD axion in supersymmetric theories (8 pages) . 103510 Eung Jin Chun, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, and David H. Lyth Fate of oscillating scalar fields in a thermal bath and their cosmological implications (25 pages) . 103511 Jun’ichi Yokoyama Noncommutative geometry and cosmology (15 pages) . 103512 G. D. Barbosa and N. Pinto-Neto Origin of the large scale structures of the universe (21 pages) . 103513 David H. Oaknin Observational constraints on patch inflation in noncommutative spacetime (16 pages) . 103514 Gianluca Calcagni and Shinji Tsujikawa Do fermions and bosons produce the same gravitational field? (4 pages) . 103515 John D. Barrow and Robert J. Scherrer Perturbations in a holographic universe and in other stiff fluid cosmologies (7 pages) . 103516 T. J. Battefeld and D. A. Easson Uranus’s anomalously low excess heat constrains strongly interacting dark matter (6 pages) . 103517 Saibal Mitra Multiple inflation and the WMAP ‘‘glitches’’ (11 pages) . 103518 Paul Hunt and Subir Sarkar Early reionization by decaying particles and cosmic microwave background radiation (5 pages) . 103519 S. Kasuya and M. Kawasaki Constraints on isocurvature models from the WMAP first-year data (20 pages) . 103520 K. Moodley, M. Bucher, J. Dunkley, P.G. Ferreira, and C. Skordis Model of inflation independent of the initial conditions, with bounded number of e-folds and nslarger or smaller than one (5 pages) .......................................................................... 103521 G. Germa´n and A. de la Macorra Final state and thermodynamics of a dark energy universe (15 pages) . 103522 Shin’ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov Theoretical uncertainty in baryon oscillations (4 pages) . 103523 Daniel Eisenstein and Martin White Cosmological density fluctuations and gravity waves: A covariant approach to gauge-invariant nonlinear perturba- tion theory (10 pages) ....................................................................... 103524 Chris Clarkson Noncommutative models in patch cosmology (16 pages) . 103525 Gianluca Calcagni Dynamical relaxation of the dark matter to baryon ratio (8 pages) . 103526 R. Catena, M. Pietroni, and L. Scarabello Frame independence of the inhomogeneous mixmaster chaos via Misner-Chitre´-like variables (7 pages) . 103527 Riccardo Benini and Giovanni Montani Cosmic microwave background constraints on the strong equivalence principle (8 pages) . 103528 V. Boucher, J.-M. Ge´rard, P. Vandergheynst, and Y. Wiaux Neutralino annihilation into rays in the Milky Way and in external galaxies (18 pages) . 103529 N. Fornengo, L. Pieri, and S. Scopel Bounds on cold dark matter and neutrino isocurvature perturbations from CMB and LSS data (12 pages) . 103530 Marı´a Beltra´n, Juan Garcı´a-Bellido, Julien Lesgourgues, and Alain Riazuelo (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 70, NUMBER 10 D15 NOVEMBER 2004 Scalar self-interactions loosen constraints from fifth force searches (9 pages) . 104001 Steven S. Gubser and Justin Khoury q-deformed de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence (7 pages) . 104002 David A. Lowe Quasiphysical family of gravity-wave templates for precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Application to double-spin precessing binaries (17 pages) . 104003 Alessandra Buonanno, Yanbei Chen, Yi Pan, and Michele Vallisneri Well-posedness of the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura formulation of Einstein’s field equations (11 pages) . 104004 Horst Beyer and Olivier Sarbach Charged perfect fluid disks as sources of Taub-NUT-type spacetimes (6 pages) . 104005 Gonzalo Garcı´a-Reyes and Guillermo A. Gonza´lez Gravitational wave solutions in string and M-theory AdS backgrounds (10 pages) . 104006 Alok Kumar and Hari K. Kunduri Constrained scheme for the Einstein equations based on the Dirac gauge and spherical coordinates (24 pages) . 104007 Silvano Bonazzola, Eric Gourgoulhon, Philippe Grandcle´ment, and Je´roˆme Novak Hawking radiation for Dirac spinors on the RP3 geon (14 pages) . 104008 Paul Langlois Higher order corrections to the Newtonian potential in the Randall-Sundrum model (12 pages) . 104009 Petter Callin and Finn Ravndal Generating dynamical black hole solutions (6 pages) . 104010 A. K. Dawood and S. G. Ghosh Third post-Newtonian accurate generalized quasi-Keplerian parametrization for compact binaries in eccentric orbits (17 pages) ............................................................................ 104011 Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Achamveedu Gopakumar, and Gerhard Scha¨fer Gravitational wave memory of gamma-ray burst jets (8 pages) . 104012 Norichika Sago, Kunihito Ioka, Takashi Nakamura, and Ryo Yamazaki Asymptotic states in two black hole moduli space (7 pages) . 104013 Kenji Sakamoto Exact solutions of Lovelock-Born-Infeld black holes (7 pages) . 104014 Matı´as Aiello, Rafael Ferraro, and Gasto´n Giribet Gravitational collapse in anti de Sitter space (6 pages) . 104015 David Garfinkle Excision boundary conditions for black-hole initial data (24 pages) . 104016 Gregory B. Cook and Harald P. Pfeiffer Classical model of an elementary particle with a Bertotti-Robinson core and extremal black holes (9 pages) . 104017 O. B. Zaslavskii 3D simulations of Einstein’s equations: Symmetric hyperbolicity, live gauges, and dynamic control of the constraints (22 pages) ........................................................................ 104018 Manuel Tiglio, Luis Lehner, and David Neilsen Quasilocalized gravity without asymptotic flatness (7 pages) . 104019 M. Shaposhnikov, P. Tinyakov, and K. Zuleta Exactly soluble quantum wormhole in two dimensions (6 pages) . 104020 Won Tae Kim, Edwin J. Son, and Myung Seok Yoon Relativistically spinning charged sphere (14 pages) . 104021 D. Lynden-Bell Twistor superstring in two-time physics (16 pages) . 104022 Itzhak Bars Is it really naked? On cosmic censorship in string theory (8 pages) . 104023 Andrei V. Frolov Late time evolution of brane gas cosmology and compact internal dimensions (7 pages) . 104024 Jin Young Kim Asymmetric radiating brane-world (5 pages) ........................................................ 104025 La´szlo´ A´ . Gergely, Emily Leeper, and Roy Maartens (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 70, NUMBER 10 D15 NOVEMBER 2004 Black holes from colliding wavepackets (4 pages) . 104026 Steven B. Giddings and Vyacheslav S. Rychkov Energy
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