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 65, NUMBER 2 CONTENTS 15 JANUARY 2002 Physical Review D Editorial Policies and Practices . iii Physical Review D Information for Contributors . vii Guidelines for Estimating Length for Physical Review D . x RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Evidence against or for topological defects in the BOOMERanG data? (4 pages) . 021301͑R͒ F. R. Bouchet, P. Peter, A. Riazuelo, and M. Sakellariadou Lower bound on the local extragalactic magnetic ®eld (5 pages) . 021302͑R͒ Luis A. Anchordoqui and Haim Goldberg k-string tensions in SU(N) gauge theories (4 pages) . 021501͑R͒ Luigi Del Debbio, Haralambos Panagopoulos, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari Fixing the conformal window in QCD (5 pages) . 021701͑R͒ G. Grunberg Action for supergravity interacting with super-p-brane sources (5 pages) . 021901͑R͒ Igor A. Bandos, Jose A. de AzcaÂrraga, Jose M. Izquierdo, and Jerzy Lukierski ARTICLES Search for periodic gravitational wave sources with the Explorer detector (11 pages) . 022001 P. Astone, M. Bassan, P. Bonifazi, P. Carelli, E. Coccia, C. Cosmelli, S. D'Antonio, V. Fafone, S. Frasca, Y. Minenkov, I. Modena, G. Modestino, A. Moleti, G. V. Pallottino, M. A. Papa, G. Pizzella, L. Quintieri, F. Ronga, R. Terenzi, and M. Visco Conversion of conventional gravitational-wave interferometers into quantum nondemolition interferometers by modifying their input and/or output optics (31 pages) . 022002 H. J. Kimble, Yuri Levin, Andrey B. Matsko, Kip S. Thorne, and Sergey P. Vyatchanin Making maps of the cosmic microwave background: The MAXIMA example (25 pages) . 022003 Radek Stompor, Amedeo Balbi, Julian D. Borrill, Pedro G. Ferreira, Shaul Hanany, Andrew H. Jaffe, Adrian T. Lee, Sang Oh, Bahman Rabii, Paul L. Richards, George F. Smoot, Celeste D. Winant, and Jiun-Huei Proty Wu Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (11 pages) ................................................... 022004 Neil J. Cornish Cross-correlation between gravitational wave detectors for detecting association with gamma ray bursts (5 pages) ................................................... 022005 G. Modestino and A. Moleti Microlensing by natural wormholes: Theory and simulations (15 pages) . 023001 Margarita Safonova, Diego F. Torres, and Gustavo E. Romero Copyright 2002 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 65, NUMBER 2 15 JANUARY 2002 Transport of cosmic rays in chaotic magnetic ®elds (15 pages) . 023002 Fabien Casse, Martin Lemoine, and Guy Pelletier Dark synergy: Gravitational lensing and the CMB (15 pages) . 023003 Wayne Hu Centaurus A as the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays? (8 pages) . 023004 Claudia Isola, Martin Lemoine, and GuÈnter Sigl Image distortion by thick lenses (15 pages) ................................................... 023005 Simonetta Frittelli and Thomas E. Oberst Structure formation in the LemaõÃtre-Tolman model (15 pages) . 023501 Andrzej KrasinÂski and Charles Hellaby Supernova type Ia data and the cosmic microwave background of modi®ed curvature at short and large distances (8 pages) ................................................... 023502 Mar Bastero-Gil and Laura Mersini Evolution of Abelian-Higgs string networks (19 pages) . 023503 J. N. Moore, E. P. S. Shellard, and C. J. A. P. Martins Semiclassical instability of the brane-world: Randall-Sundrum bubbles (4 pages) . 023504 Daisuke Ida, Tetsuya Shiromizu, and Hirotaka Ochiai Analysis of CMB polarization on an incomplete sky (20 pages) . 023505 Antony Lewis, Anthony Challinor, and Neil Turok Bounds on the possible evolution of the gravitational constant from cosmological type-Ia supernovae (9 pages) ................................................... 023506 E. GaztanÄaga, E. GarcõÂa-Berro, J. Isern, E. Bravo, and I. DomõÂnguez In¯ation from D-DÅ brane annihilation (8 pages) . 023507 Stephon H. S. Alexander Quintessence as a runaway dilaton (13 pages) ................................................... 023508 M. Gasperini, F. Piazza, and G. Veneziano Asymptotic behavior of FRW cosmologies with many scalar ®elds (6 pages) . 023509 Mario Castagnino, Hector Giacomini, and Luis Lara Stress-energy tensor for trans-Planckian cosmology (14 pages) . 023510 Martin Lemoine, Musongela Lubo, JeÂroÃme Martin, and Jean-Philippe Uzan Constraining neutrino physics with big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave background radiation (6 pages) ................................................... 023511 S. H. Hansen, G. Mangano, A. Melchiorri, G. Miele, and O. Pisanti Gauge-ready formulation of the cosmological kinetic theory in generalized gravity theories (26 pages) . 023512 Jai-chan Hwang and Hyerim Noh Has the Universe always expanded? (10 pages) ................................................... 023513 Patrick Peter and Nelson Pinto-Neto Bulk gravitational ®eld and cosmological perturbations on the brane (20 pages) . 023514 Kazuya Koyama and Jiro Soda Further evidence for a generic universe (11 pages) . 023515 CeÂsar A. Terrero-Escalante and Alberto A. GarcõÂa de Broglie±Bohm FRW universes in quantum string cosmology (16 pages) . 023516 J. Marto and P. Vargas Moniz Gravitational wave production: A strong constraint on primordial magnetic ®elds (11 pages) . 023517 Chiara Caprini and Ruth Durrer Relic gravity waves from braneworld in¯ation (16 pages) . 023518 Varun Sahni, M. Sami, and Tarun Souradeep Termination of the phase of quintessence by gravitational back reaction (8 pages) . 023519 Mingzhe Li, Wenbin Lin, Xinmin Zhang, and Robert Brandenberger (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 65, NUMBER 2 15 JANUARY 2002 Calculating exclusion limits for weakly interacting massive particle direct detection experiments without background subtraction (6 pages) ................................................... 023520 Anne M. Green Cosmological and black hole brane-world universes in higher derivative gravity (22 pages) . 023521 Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, and Sachiko Ogushi Nonlinear mode coupling in rotating stars and the r-mode instability in neutron stars (43 pages) . 024001 A. K. Schenk, P. Arras, E .E . Flanagan, S. A. Teukolsky, and I. Wasserman Conformal dynamics of 0-branes (12 pages) ................................................... 024002 M. Cadoni, P. Carta, M. CavagliaÁ, and S. Mignemi Instability of extremal relativistic charged spheres (10 pages) . 024003 Peter Anninos and Tony Rothman Causal entropy bound for nonsingular cosmologies (6 pages) . 024004 Ram Brustein, Stefano Foffa, and Avraham E. Mayo Light rays at optical black holes in moving media (12 pages) . 024005 I. Brevik and G. Halnes Precursors, black holes, and a locality bound (11 pages) . 024006 Steven B. Giddings and Matthew Lippert Critical phenomena at the threshold of black hole formation for collisionless matter in spherical symmetry (10 pages) ................................................... 024007 Ignacio ͑InÄaki͒ Olabarrieta and Matthew W. Choptuik Primordial black holes from in¯ationary models with and without broken scale invariance (7 pages) . 024008 Torsten Bringmann, Claus Kiefer, and David Polarski Quantum inequalities for the electromagnetic ®eld (13 pages) . 024009 Michael J. Pfenning Density discontinuity of a neutron star and gravitational waves (12 pages) . 024010 Hajime Sotani, Kazuhiro Tominaga, and Kei-ichi Maeda Choice of connection in loop quantum gravity (7 pages) . 024011 Serguei Alexandrov Probing black holes in nonperturbative gauge theory (14 pages) . 024012 Norihiro Iizuka, Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz, and David A. Lowe Teleparallel superspace in eleven dimensions coupled to supermembranes (7 pages) . 024013 S. James Gates, Jr., Hitoshi Nishino, and Subhash Rajpoot Quantum ¯uctuations in brane-world in¯ation without an in¯aton on the brane (9 pages) . 024014 Norichika Sago, Yoshiaki Himemoto, and Misao Sasaki Quasineutral plasma equilibria in a Kerr metric (9 pages) . 024015 Klaus ElsaÈsser Comparing the inspiral of irrotational and corotational binary neutron stars (8 pages) . 024016 Matthew D. Duez, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata, and KoÅji UryuÅ Black holes with less entropy than A/4 (12 pages) . 024017 Don N. Page Stress-energy tensor in soluble models of spherically symmetric charged black hole evaporation (13 pages) ................................................... 024018 Kamran Diba and David A. Lowe Dilatonic monopoles and ``hairy'' black holes (10 pages) . 024019 Y. Brihaye, B. Hartmann, and J. Kunz Area scaling entropies for gravitating systems (4 pages) . 024020 Jonathan Oppenheim Scalar ®eld induced oscillations of relativistic stars and gravitational collapse (10 pages) . 024021 Florian Siebel, Jose A. Font, and Philippos Papadopoulos (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 65, NUMBER 2 15 JANUARY 2002 Kerr metric as an exact solution for unpolarized S1ϫS2 Gowdy models (10 pages) . 024022 O. ObregoÂn, H. Quevedo, and M. P. Ryan Bounds on the cosmological abundance of primordial black holes from diffuse sky brightness: Single mass spectra (8 pages) ................................................... 024023 P. S. CustoÂdio and J. E. Horvath Rotating soliton solution in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion gravity