Accepted in January 2008, to be published in Physical Review D15


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fermion excitations of a tense brane black hole
H. T. Cho, A. S. Cornell, Jason Doukas, and Wade Naylor
[abstract]

Highly distorted apparent horizons and the hoop conjecture
Hirotaka Yoshino
[abstract]

Kinematic constraints on formation of bound states of cosmic strings: Field theoretical approach
P. Salmi, A. Ach\'{u}carro, E. J. Copeland, T. W. B. Kibble, R. de Putter, and D. A. Steer
[abstract]

ARTICLES

Supernova brightening from chameleon-photon mixing
C. Burrage

Influence of the cosmological constant on gravitational lensing in small systems
Mauro Sereno
[abstract]

Effects of a primordial magnetic field on low and high multipoles of the cosmic microwave background
Dai G. Yamazaki, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Toshitaka Kajino, and Grant J. Mathews
[abstract]

Trapping of strangelets in the geomagnetic field
L. Paulucci, J. E. Horvath, and G. A. Medina-Tanco
[abstract]

New interactions in the dark sector mediated by dark energy
Anthony W. Brookfield, Carsten van de Bruck, and Lisa M. H. Hall
[abstract]

Cosmic microwave background in a causal set universe
Joe Zuntz
[abstract]

Rapid roll inflation with conformal coupling
Lev Kofman and Shinji Mukohyama
[abstract]

Origin of primordial magnetic fields
Rafael S. de Souza and Reuven Opher
[abstract]

Prospects for constraining neutrino mass using Planck and Lyman-$\alpha$ forest data
Steven Gratton, Antony Lewis, and George Efstathiou
[abstract]

Constraints on dark matter particles from theory, galaxy observations, and $N$-body simulations
D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega, and N. G. Sanchez
[abstract]

Gravitational inflaton decay and the hierarchy problem
Yuki Watanabe and Eiichiro Komatsu
[abstract]

Deviation from $\Lambda$CDM: Pressure parametrization
A. A. Sen
[abstract]

Prospects for detecting dark matter with GLAST in light of the WMAP haze
Dan Hooper, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, and Gregory Dobler
[abstract]

Compact stars as dark matter probes
Gianfranco Bertone and Malcolm Fairbairn
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Is it possible to explain neutrino masses with scalar dark matter?
C\ ' { e} line Boehm, Yasaman Farzan, Thomas Hambye, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, and Silvia Pascoli
[abstract]

Environmental dependence of masses and coupling constants
Keith A. Olive and Maxim Pospelov

Precision of Hubble constant derived using black hole binary absolute distances and statistical redshift information
Chelsea L. MacLeod and Craig J. Hogan
[abstract]

Numerical search for a fundamental theory
Vitaly Vanchurin
[abstract]

Clock ambiguity and the emergence of physical laws
Andreas Albrecht and Alberto Iglesias
[abstract]

Cosmic $^6$Li and $^7$Li problems and BBN with long-lived charged massive particles
Karsten Jedamzik
[abstract]

Self-calibration of tomographic weak lensing for the physics of baryons to constrain dark energy
Andrew R. Zentner, Douglas H. Rudd, and Wayne Hu
[abstract]

Dynamics and chaos in the unified scalar field cosmology
Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Spyros Basilakos, and George Contopoulos
[abstract]

Monte Carlo Markov chains analysis of WMAP3 and SDSS data points to broken symmetry inflaton potentials and provides a lower bound on the tensor to scalar ratio
C. Destri, H. J. de Vega, and N. G. Sanchez
[abstract]

Anisotropic cosmological constant and the CMB quadrupole anomaly
Davi C. Rodrigues
[abstract]

Evolution of density perturbations in decaying vacuum cosmology
H. A. Borges, S. Carneiro, J. C. Fabris, and C. Pigozzo
[abstract]

Possibility of observing the evolution of the cosmic microwave background
Adam Moss, James P. Zibin, and Douglas Scott
[abstract]

Cosmic strings from supersymmetric flat directions
Yanou Cui, Stephen P. Martin, David E. Morrissey, and James D. Wells
[abstract]

Impact of reionization on CMB polarization tests of slow-roll inflation
Michael J. Mortonson and Wayne Hu
[abstract]

Gravity of magnetic stresses and energy
Giuseppe Bimonte, Enrico Calloni, and Luigi Rosa
[abstract]

Decay of Dirac hair around a dilaton black hole
Gary W. Gibbons and Marek Rogatko
[abstract]

Fate of gravitational collapse in semiclassical gravity
Carlos Barcel\'{o}, Stefano Liberati, Sebastiano Sonego, and Matt Visser
[abstract]

Dynamical excitation of space-time modes of compact objects
Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar, and Roberto De Pietri
[abstract]

Absorption effects due to spin in the wordline approach to black hole dynamics
Rafael A. Porto

New instability in relativistic cylindrically symmetric system
Ken-ichi Nakao, Daisuke Ida, and Yasunari Kurita
[abstract]

Bulk scalar emission from a rotating black hole pierced by a tense brane
Tsutomu Kobayashi, Masato Nozawa, and Yu-ichi Takamizu
[abstract]

Bouncing cosmology from Kalb-Ramond braneworld
G. De Risi
[abstract]

Stability of thick brane worlds nonminimally coupled to gravity
A. A. Andrianov and L. Vecchi
[abstract]

Dilaton cosmology, noncommutativity, and generalized uncertainty principle
Babak Vakili
[abstract]

Exact geometric optics in a Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetime
Thomas M{\"u}ller
[abstract]

Boundary value problem for black rings
Yoshiyuki Morisawa, Shinya Tomizawa, and Yukinori Yasui
[abstract]

Charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black holes in five dimensions
Toshiharu Nakagawa, Hideki Ishihara, Ken Matsuno, and Shinya Tomizawa
[abstract]

Analytic derivation of the black-hole negative mode
Barak Kol
[abstract]

Puncture evolution of Schwarzschild black holes
J. David Brown
[abstract]

Tail effects in the third post-Newtonian gravitational wave energy flux of compact binaries in quasi-elliptical orbits
K. G. Arun, Luc Blanchet, Bala R. Iyer, and Moh' d S. S. Qusailah
[abstract]

Inspiralling compact binaries in quasi-elliptical orbits: The complete third post-Newtonian energy flux
K. G. Arun, Luc Blanchet, Bala R. Iyer, and Moh' d S. S. Qusailah
[abstract]

Complete LQG propagator. II. Asymptotic behavior of the vertex
Emanuele Alesci and Carlo Rovelli
[abstract]

How do black holes spin in Chern-Simons modified gravity?
Daniel Grumiller and Nicol\ ' { a} s Yunes
[abstract]

Influence of mass multipole moments on the deflection of a light ray by an isolated axisymmetric body
Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte and Pierre Teyssandier
[abstract]

Complete set of commuting symmetry operators for the Klein-Gordon equation in generalized higher-dimensional Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes
Artur Sergyeyev and Pavel Krtou\v{s}
[abstract]

Testing general metric theories of gravity with bursting neutron stars
Dimitrios Psaltis
[abstract]

Modulation of the gravitational waveform by the effect of radiation reaction
Yasushi Mino
[abstract]

Reducing eccentricity in black-hole binary evolutions with initial parameters from post-Newtonian inspiral
Sascha Husa, Mark Hannam, Jos\ ' { e} A. Gonz\'{a}lez, Ulrich Sperhake, and Bernd Br\"{u}gmann
[abstract]

Measuring eccentricity in binary black-hole initial data
Jason D. Grigsby and Gregory B. Cook
[abstract]

Learning about compact binary merger: The interplay between numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy
Thomas Baumgarte, Patrick Brady, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius, and Ricky DeVoe
[abstract]

6D thick branes from interacting scalar fields
Vladimir Dzhunushaliev, Vladimir Folomeev, Douglas Singleton, and Sergio Aguilar-Rudametkin
[abstract]

Orbital dynamics of binary boson star systems
C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, and S. L. Liebling
[abstract]

Scattering of long-wavelength gravitational waves
Sam R. Dolan
[abstract]

Robustness of binary black hole mergers in the presence of spurious radiation
Tanja Bode, Deirdre Shoemaker, Frank Herrmann, and Ian Hinder
[abstract]

Black hole entropy in modified-gravity models
F. Briscese and E. Elizalde
[abstract]

Purely electromagnetic spacetimes
B. V. Ivanov
[abstract]

Numerical experiments of adjusted Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura systems for controlling constraint violations
Kenta Kiuchi and Hisa-aki Shinkai
[abstract]

Topological deformation of isolated horizons
Tom\ ' { a} \ v{ s} Liko
[abstract]

Anatomy of the binary black hole recoil: A multipolar analysis
Jeremy D. Schnittman, Alessandra Buonanno, James R. van Meter, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly, and Sean T. McWilliams
[abstract]

Collapse of magnetized hypermassive neutron stars in general relativity: Disk evolution and outflows
Branson C. Stephens, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Yuk Tung Liu
[abstract]

Inflation and the semiclassical dynamics of a conformal scalar field
G. L. Alberghi, C. Appignani, R. Casadio, F. Sbis\`{a}, and A. Tronconi
[abstract]

Further insight into gravitational recoil
Carlos O. Lousto and Yosef Zlochower
[abstract]

Thermodynamical properties of hairy black holes in $n$ spacetime dimensions
Mario Nadalini, Luciano Vanzo, and Sergio Zerbini
[abstract]

Bonnor stars in $d$ spacetime dimensions
Jos\ ' e P. S. Lemos and Vilson T. Zanchin
[abstract]

Anomalous dimensions of leading twist conformal operators
A. V. Belitsky, J. Henn, C. Jarczak, D. M\"{u}ller, and E. Sokatchev

Relativistic wave equations of combined particles and antiparticles in scalar quantum field theory
Mohsen Emami-Razavi
[abstract]

Quantization of the relativistic fluid in physical phase space on K\"{a}hler manifolds
L. Holender, M. A. Santos, and I. V. Vancea

Standard model gauging of the Wess-Zumino-Witten term: Anomalies, global currents, and pseudo-Chern-Simons interactions
Jeffrey A. Harvey, Christopher T. Hill, and Richard J. Hill
[abstract]

Disentangling neutrino-nucleon cross section and high energy neutrino flux with a km$^3$ neutrino telescope
E. Borriello, A. Cuoco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, S. Pastor, O. Pisanti, and P. D. Serpico
[abstract]

Domain wall solitons and Hopf algebraic translational symmetries in noncommutative field theories
Yuya Sasai and Naoki Sasakura
[abstract]

Constraining models of neutrino mass and neutrino interactions with the Planck satellite
Alexander Friedland, Kathryn M. Zurek, and Sergei Bashinsky
[abstract]

Absence of the 4$\psi$ divergence in noncommutative chiral models
Maja Buri\'{c}, Du\ v{ s} ko Latas, Voja Radovanovi\'{c}, and Josip Trampeti\'{c}
[abstract]

Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branes
Jonathan A. Bagger and Neil Lambert
[abstract]

Semiclassical decay of topological defects
Szabolcs Borsanyi and Mark Hindmarsh
[abstract]

Supersymmetry in 5D gravity
C. S. Lim, Tomoaki Nagasawa, Satoshi Ohya, Kazuki Sakamoto, and Makoto Sakamoto
[abstract]

Planar limit of orientifold field theories and emergent center symmetry
Adi Armoni, Mikhail Shifman, and Mithat \"{U}nsal
[abstract]

Magnetic strings in QCD as non-Abelian vortices
A. Gorsky and V. Zakharov

Oscillation effects and time variation of the supernova neutrino signal
James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin, and Justin Brockman
[abstract]

Adiabatic approximation in the second quantized formulation
Kazuo Fujikawa
[abstract]

Gauge-invariant quantities characterizing gauge fields in chromodynamics
Gouranga C. Nayak and Robert Shrock
[abstract]

Topological discrete algebra, ground-state degeneracy, and quark confinement in QCD
Masatoshi Sato
[abstract]

Hawking radiation via higher-spin gauge anomalies
Satoshi Iso, Takeshi Morita, and Hiroshi Umetsu

Fully unintegrated parton correlation functions and factorization in lowest order hard scattering
J. C. Collins, T. C. Rogers, and A. M. Sta\'{s}to
[abstract]

Decay of scalar condensation in quantum field theory
Shigeki Matsumoto and Takeo Moroi
[abstract]

False vacuum in the supersymmetric mass varying neutrinos model
Ryo Takahashi and Morimitsu Tanimoto
[abstract]

Massive vector scattering in Lee-Wick gauge theory
Benjam\ ' in Grinstein, Donal O'Connell, and Mark B. Wise
[abstract]

Renormalized effective actions in radially symmetric backgrounds: Exact calculations versus approximation methods
Gerald V. Dunne, Jin Hur, Choonkyu Lee, and Hyunsoo Min
[abstract]

Phase diagram of quark-antiquark and diquark condensates at finite temperature and density in the 3-dimensional Gross-Neveu model
Hiroaki Kohyama
[abstract]

Massive Yang-Mills theory based on the nonlinearly realized gauge group
D. Bettinelli, R. Ferrari, and A. Quadri

Walls and chains of planar Skyrmions
Derek Harland and R. S. Ward
[abstract]

$2n$-dimensional models with topological mass generation
Shinichi Deguchi and Satoshi Hayakawa
[abstract]

Exact expressions for the Casimir interaction between semitransparent spheres and cylinders
Kimball A. Milton and Jef Wagner
[abstract]

Metastable supersymmetry breaking and supergravity at finite temperature
Lilia Anguelova, Steven Thomas, and Riccardo Ricci
[abstract]

Warped phenomenology in the holographic basis
Brian Batell and Tony Gherghetta
[abstract]

Supersymmetric QCD vacua and geometrical engineering
Radu Tatar and Ben Wetenhall

Holographic vector mesons from spectral functions at finite baryon or isospin density
Johanna Erdmenger, Matthias Kaminski, and Felix Rust
[abstract]

Supergravity description of boost invariant conformal plasma at strong coupling
Paolo Benincasa, Alex Buchel, Michal P. Heller, and Romuald A. Janik

Gauge theory duals of cosmological backgrounds and their energy momentum tensors
Adel Awad, Sumit R. Das, K. Narayan, and Sandip P. Trivedi

Supersymmetric giant graviton solutions in $AdS_3$
Gautam Mandal, Suvrat Raju, and Mikael Smedb\"{a}ck
[abstract]

Counting giant gravitons in $AdS_3$
Suvrat Raju
[abstract]

On the internal structure of dyons in $\mathcal{N}$=4 super Yang-Mills theories
K. Narayan
[abstract]

Holographic model for confinement/deconfinement
C. A. Ballon Bayona, Henrique Boschi-Filho, Nelson R. F. Braga, and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas
[abstract]

Notes on Liouville theory at $c\leq$1
Will McElgin
[abstract]

Elaborations on the string dual to $\mathcal{N}$=1 SQCD
Roberto Casero, Carlos N\'{u}\~{n}ez, and Angel Paredes

Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole with gravitational Chern-Simons term: Thermodynamics and statistical entropy
Mu-In Park

BRIEF REPORTS

Synchrotron scalar radiation from a source in ultrarelativistic circular orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole
Lu\ ' { \ i} s C. B. Crispino
[abstract]

Horizons of radiating black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
S. G. Ghosh and D. W. Deshkar
[abstract]

Equivalence principle and the gauge hierarchy problem
Xavier Calmet
[abstract]

Classical solution in six-dimensional gauge theory with higher derivative coupling
Hironobu Kihara and Muneto Nitta
[abstract]

COMMENTS

Comment on ``Noncommutative gauge theories and Lorentz symmetry''
Alfredo Iorio

Reply to ``Comment on `Noncommutative gauge theories and Lorentz symmetry' ''
Rabin Banerjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, and Kuldeep Kumar