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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 54, NUMBER 6 CONTENTS 15 SEPTEMBER 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS No crisis for big bang nucleosynthesis ...... R3681 Peter J. Kernan and Subir Sarkar Causality and the Doppler peaks ...... R3686 Neil Turok D-brane recoil and infrared divergences in string theory ...... R3690 Vipul Periwal and O” yvind Tafjord Weak scale superstrings ...... R3693 Joseph D. Lykken

ARTICLES High-energy cosmic neutrinos and the equivalence principle ...... 3698 Hisakazu Minakata and Alexei Yu. Smirnov Neutrino-electron scattering in a dense magnetized plasma ...... 3706 V. G. Bezchastnov and P. Haensel Eternal annihilations of light photinos ...... 3722 Edward W. Kolb and Antonio Riotto Structure of Doppler peaks induced by active perturbations ...... 3727 Joao Magueijo, Andreas Albrecht, Pedro Ferreira, and David Coulson Reheating and thermalization in a simple scalar model ...... 3745 D. T. Son Gravitational waves from a spinning particle in circular orbits around a rotating black hole ...... 3762 Takahiro Tanaka, Yasushi Mino, Misao Sasaki, and Masaru Shibata Wave propagation in gravitational systems: Completeness of quasinormal modes ...... 3778 E. S. C. Ching, P. T. Leung, W. M. Suen, and K. Young Analytic approximations to the spacetime of a critical gravitational collapse ...... 3792 Richard H. Price and Jorge Pullin String-supported wormhole spacetimes containing closed timelike curves ...... 3800 F. Schein, P. C. Aichelburg, and W. Israel Classical and quantum initial value problems for models of chronology violation ...... 3806 C. J. Fewster, A. Higuchi, and C. G. Wells Model for nonspherical collapse and formation of black holes by emission of neutrinos, strings, and gravitational waves ...... 3826 M. L. Bedran, M. O. Calvaõ, H. P. de Oliveira, and I. Damiaõ Soares Conformally dressed black hole in 2 ϩ 1 dimensions ...... 3830 Cristiań Martıńez and Jorge Zanelli Gravitational instability of a kink ...... 3834 W. Barreto, R. Go´mez, L. Lehner, and J. Winicour Rotating charged black strings and three-dimensional black holes ...... 3840 Jose´ P. S. Lemos and Vilson T. Zanchin Exact gravitational shock wave solution of higher order theories ...... 3854 M. Campanelli and C. O. Lousto

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Non-Abelian BF theories with sources and two-dimensional gravity ...... 3861 J. P. Lupi, A. Restuccia, and J. Stephany One-loop divergences in simple supergravity: Boundary effects ...... 3869 Giampiero Esposito and Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik Surface gravity in dynamical spherically symmetric spacetimes ...... 3882 Gyula Fodor, Kouji Nakamura, Yoshimi Oshiro, and Akira Tomimatsu Conserved masses in GHS Einstein and string black holes and consistent thermodynamics ...... 3892 K. C. K. Chan, J. D. E. Creighton, and R. B. Mann Black hole entropy: Statistical mechanics agrees with thermodynamics ...... 3900 Sergey N. Solodukhin Entropy of a quantum field in rotating black holes ...... 3904 Min-Ho Lee and Jae Kwan Kim Entropy and temperature of black 3-branes ...... 3915 S. S. Gubser, I. R. Klebanov, and A. W. Peet Formation and evaporation of primordial black holes in scalar-tensor gravity theories ...... 3920 John D. Barrow and B. J. Carr Conical geometry and quantum entropy of a charged Kerr black hole ...... 3932 Robert B. Mann and Sergey N. Solodukhin MSW effect in a fluctuating matter density ...... 3941 A. B. Balantekin, J. M. Fetter, and F. N. Loreti Irreversible thermodynamics of Kerr-Newman black holes ...... 3952 Osamu Kaburaki Innermost stable circular orbit of inspiraling neutron-star binaries: Tidal effects, post-Newtonian effects, and the neutron-star equation of state ...... 3958 Dong Lai and Alan G. Wiseman Four-loop vacuum energy ␤ function in O(N) symmetric scalar theory ...... 3965 Boris Kastening K models and type IIB superstring backgrounds ...... 3976 Alok Kumar and Gautam Sengupta Bosonic description of spinning strings in 2ϩ1 dimensions ...... 3981 B. Harms and A. Stern Loop equations for loops with Ising spins either all up or all down in cϭ1/2 noncritical string theory ...... 3985 Ryuichi Nakayama and Toshiya Suzuki Universal aspects of string propagation on curved backgrounds ...... 3995 Ioannis Bakas and Konstadinos Sfetsos Radiation from an excited vortex in the Abelian Higgs model ...... 4004 H. Arodz´ and L. Hadasz Relaxation and kinetics in scalar field theories ...... 4013 D. Boyanovsky, I. D. Lawrie, and D.-S. Lee New relativistic high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation ...... 4029 L. Burakovsky, L. P. Horwitz, and W. C. Schieve Ultraviolet renormalon reexamined ...... 4039 A. I. Vainshtein and V. I. Zakharov Influence of the full vertex and vacuum polarization on the fermion propagator in ͑2ϩ1͒-dimensional QED ..... 4049 P. Maris Effective theory for parity-conserving three-dimensional QED ...... 4059 I. J. R. Aitchison, C. D. Fosco, and F. D. Mazzitelli Chiral symmetry at finite temperature: Linear versus nonlinear ␴ models ...... 4066 Alexander Bochkarev and Joseph Kapusta

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Superspace formulation for the master equation ...... 4080 Everton M. C. Abreu and Nelson R. F. Braga Three-gluon vertex in arbitrary gauge and dimension ...... 4087 A. I. Davydychev, P. Osland, and O. V. Tarasov BRST-invariant Lagrangian of spontaneously broken gauge theories in a noncommutative geometry ...... 4114 Yoshitaka Okumura Fixed point action and topology in the CP3 model ...... 4121 Rudolf Burkhalter Contractor renormalization group technology and exact Hamiltonian real-space renormalization group transformations ...... 4131 Colin J. Morningstar and Marvin Weinstein Effective potential for a covariantly constant gauge ﬁeld in curved spacetime ...... 4152 Emilio Elizalde, Sergei D. Odintsov, and August Romeo Neutral particles with spin 1/2 and action-at-a-distance theory ...... 4160 V. V. Tuga and A. A. Zheltukhin

BRIEF REPORTS Matter-microwave correlations in an open universe ...... 4169 Marc Kamionkowski Ba¨cklund transformation for nonrelativistic Chern-Simons vortices ...... 4171 P. A. Horva´thy and J.-C. Yera Remarks on ‘‘Relativistic kinetic equations for electromagnetic, scalar, and pseudoscalar interactions’’ ...... 4175 Abdellatif Abada, Michael C. Birse, Pengfei Zhuang, and Ulrich Heinz Unidexterous versus ambidexterous gravities ...... 4177 Ricardo Amorim and Ashok Das Schwinger-Dyson equation approach to chiral symmetry breaking in an external magnetic ﬁeld ...... 4181 C. N. Leung, Y. J. Ng, and A. W. Ackley Remarks on the issue of time and complex numbers in canonical quantum gravity ...... 4185 J. L. Rosales Errata Erratum: Class of exact solutions in 5D gravity and its physical properties ͓Phys. Rev. D 53, 731 ͑1996͔͒ ...... 4189 Andrew Billyard and Paul S. Wesson

Cumulative Author Index ...... 4190