PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW D Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, American Institute of Physics please see inside front cover Suite 1NO1 „ISSN: 0556-2821… 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 64, NUMBER 6 CONTENTS 15 SEPTEMBER 2001 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Variation of the gauge couplings during inflation (5 pages) ......................................... 061301͑R͒ Massimo Giovannini Black hole excision for dynamic black holes (5 pages) ............................................. 061501͑R͒ Miguel Alcubierre, Bernd Bru¨gmann, Denis Pollney, Edward Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi ARTICLES Detection of a scalar stochastic background of gravitational waves (19 pages) .......................... 062001 Danilo Babusci, Luca Baiotti, Francesco Fucito, and Alessandro Nagar Estimating stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds with the Sagnac calibration (10 pages) ............. 062002 Craig J. Hogan and Peter L. Bender How to measure CMB polarization power spectra without losing information (15 pages) ................. 063001 Max Tegmark and Angelica de Oliveira-Costa New connection between central engine weak physics and the dynamics of gamma-ray burst fireballs (7 pages) .................................................................................. 063002 Jason Pruet, Kevork Abazajian, and George M. Fuller Cosmic antifriction and accelerated expansion (13 pages) ........................................... 063501 Winfried Zimdahl, Dominik J. Schwarz, Alexander B. Balakin, and Diego Pavo´n Natural double inflation in supergravity (6 pages) ................................................. 063502 Masahide Yamaguchi Density fluctuations and primordial black hole formation in natural double inflation in supergravity (10 pages) ................................................................................. 063503 Masahide Yamaguchi Dynamical instabilities of the Randall-Sundrum model (9 pages) ..................................... 063504 Timon Boehm, Ruth Durrer, and Carsten van de Bruck Supernova constraints on spatial variations of the vacuum energy density (6 pages) ..................... 063505 P. P. Avelino, J. P. M. de Carvalho, and C. J. A. P. Martins Isotropy and stability of the brane (8 pages) ..................................................... 063506 M. G. Santos, F. Vernizzi, and P. G. Ferreira Dilatonic domain walls and curved intersecting branes (6 pages) ..................................... 063507 James E. Lidsey Dark matter in Draco and the Local Group: Implications for direct detection experiments (12 pages) ....... 063508 Ben Moore, Carlos Calca´neo-Rolda´n, Joachim Stadel, Tom Quinn, George Lake, Sebastiano Ghigna, and Fabio Governato Field theory models for variable cosmological constant (8 pages) .................................... 063509 Gia Dvali and Alexander Vilenkin Copyright 2001 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 64, NUMBER 6 15 SEPTEMBER 2001 Cosmic microwave background and scalar-tensor theories of gravity (4 pages) ......................... 063510 C. A. Clarkson, A. A. Coley, and E. S. D. O’Neill Inflationary baryogenesis (7 pages) ............................................................. 063511 Raghavan Rangarajan and D. V. Nanopoulos Bayesian joint estimation of non-Gaussianity and the power spectrum (9 pages) ........................ 063512 Grac¸a Rocha, Joa˜o Magueijo, Mike Hobson, and Anthony Lasenby Perturbations in warm inflation (8 pages) ........................................................ 063513 H. P. de Oliveira and S. E. Jora´s Non-Gaussian aspects of thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects (31 pages) ..................... 063514 Asantha Cooray Particle annihilation in cold dark matter micropancakes (5 pages) .................................... 063515 Craig J. Hogan Static and rotating electrically charged black holes in three-dimensional Brans-Dicke gravity theories (14 pages) ................................................................................. 064001 O´ scar J. C. Dias and Jose´ P. S. Lemos (3ϩ1)-dimensional spin foam model of quantum gravity with spacelike and timelike components (12 pages) ................................................................................. 064002 Alejandro Perez and Carlo Rovelli Randall-Sundrum scenario with an extra warped dimension (6 pages) ................................. 064003 Hael Collins and Bob Holdom Evolution of circular, nonequatorial orbits of Kerr black holes due to gravitational-wave emission. II. Inspiral trajectories and gravitational waveforms (15 pages) ............................................... 064004 Scott A. Hughes Uniformly accelerated black holes (9 pages) ..................................................... 064005 Patricio S. Letelier and Samuel R. Oliveira Integro-differential equation for brane-world cosmological perturbations (10 pages) ..................... 064006 Shinji Mukohyama Comments on supergravity dual of pure Nϭ1 super Yang-Mills theory with unbroken chiral symmetry (11 pages) ................................................................................. 064007 Alex Buchel and Andrew Frey Gravitational wave bursts from cusps and kinks on cosmic strings (18 pages) .......................... 064008 Thibault Damour and Alexander Vilenkin Detecting a relic background of scalar waves with LIGO (8 pages) ................................... 064009 M. Gasperini and C. Ungarelli Stable black strings in anti–de Sitter space (8 pages) .............................................. 064010 Takayuki Hirayama and Gungwon Kang Supersymmetric conical defects: Towards a string theoretic description of black hole formation (19 pages) ................................................................................. 064011 Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, and Simon F. Ross Quasiequilibrium sequences of synchronized and irrotational binary neutron stars in general relativity. II. Newtonian limits (19 pages) .................................................................. 064012 Keisuke Taniguchi, Eric Gourgoulhon, and Silvano Bonazzola Spherically symmetric false vacuum: No-go theorems and global structure (4 pages) .................... 064013 K. A. Bronnikov Dilaton black holes on thick branes (8 pages) .................................................... 064014 Marek Rogatko Quantum entropy of the Kerr black hole arising from gravitational perturbation (4 pages) ................ 064015 Jiliang Jing and Mu-Lin Yan Path integral derivation of the Brown-Henneaux central charge (7 pages) .............................. 064016 Hiroaki Terashima (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 64, NUMBER 6 15 SEPTEMBER 2001 Extending the lifetime of 3D black hole computations with a new hyperbolic system of evolution equations (13 pages) ................................................................................. 064017 Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, and Saul A. Teukolsky Emission of gravitational radiation from ultrarelativistic sources (9 pages) ............................. 064018 Ehud B. Segalis and Amos Ori Proof of the generalized second law for two-dimensional black holes (6 pages) ......................... 064019 Jeongwon Ho Gravitating sphalerons and sphaleron black holes in asymptotically anti–de Sitter spacetime (11 pages) ..... 064020 J. J. van der Bij and Eugen Radu From a thick to a thin supergravity domain wall (6 pages) .......................................... 064021 Francisco A. Brito, Mirjam Cveticˇ, and SangChul Yoon Holographic principle in the Binetruy-Deffayet-Langlois brane cosmology (5 pages) ..................... 064022 N. J. Kim, H. W. Lee, Y. S. Myung, and Gungwon Kang Gauge-invariant fluctuations of scalar branes (11 pages) ............................................ 064023 Massimo Giovannini Choptuik scaling and quasinormal modes in the anti–de Sitter space/conformal-field theory correspondence (5 pages) .................................................................................. 064024 Danny Birmingham Remark on intersecting solitons in 4D noncommutative scalar field theory (9 pages) ..................... 065001 Aaron Bergman, Ori J. Ganor, and Joanna L. Karczmarek Experimental probes of the Randall-Sundrum infinite extra dimension (8 pages) ........................ 065002 Daniel J. H. Chung, Lisa Everett, and Hooman Davoudiasl New remarks on the linear constraint self-dual boson and Wess-Zumino terms (5 pages) ................. 065003 Everton M. C. Abreu and Alvaro de Souza Dutra ϩ ϭ Spectrum of (1 1)-dimensional QCD with large numbers of flavors NF and colors NC near NF/NC 0 (6 pages) .................................................................................. 065004 Michael Engelhardt Running couplings and triviality of field theories on noncommutative spaces (5 pages) ................... 065005 Emil T. Akhmedov, Philip DeBoer, and Gordon W. Semenoff Discrete symmetry enhancement in non-Abelian models and the existence of asymptotic freedom (9 pages) .................................................................................. 065006 Adrian Patrascioiu and Erhard Seiler Standard model in the latticized bulk (9 pages) ................................................... 065007 Hsin-Chia Cheng, Christopher T. Hill, Stefan Pokorski, and Jing Wang Constraints on 5D anti–de Sitter embeddings (6 pages) ............................................ 065008 Philip D. Mannheim