1. Scalar Fields in Multidimensional Gravity. No-Hair and Other No-Go Theorems

   • K. A. Bronnikov
   • S. B. Fadeev
   • A. V. Michtchenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 525

2. The Curvature Excitation of Quantum Wilson Loop in (R + R ²)–Gravity

   • L. Shao
   • H. Noda
   • C. G. Shao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 544

3. Does Operator Ordering Need Wormhole Dominance in the Wavefunction of the Universe?

   • S. Biswas
   • I. Chowdhury
   • P. Misra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 545 - 566

4. Higher-Derivative Gravitational Coupling Between Laser Beams

   • Yihan Chen
   • Changgui Shao
   • Jiali Yan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 567 - 578

5. Quantum Thermal Effect of Nonstationary Kerr-Newman Black Hole

   • Xuejun Yang
   • Han He
   • Zheng Zhao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 579 - 594

6. Hawking Radiation of Dirac Particles in a Nonuniformly Rectilinearly Accelerating Black Hole

   • J. Y. Zhang
   • Z. Zhao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 595 - 603

7. On the Geometrical Character of Gravitation

   • Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos
   • Daniel Sudarsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 605 - 617

8. Quantum Statistical Entropy of Six Dimensional Horowitz-Strominger Black Holes

   • You-Gen Shen
   • Chang-Jun Gao
   • Chi-yi Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 619 - 630

9. On General Plane Fronted Waves. Geodesics

   • A. M. Candela
   • J. L. Flores
   • M. Sánchez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 631 - 649

10. On the Ricci Curvature of Compact Spacelike Hypersurfaces in Einstein Conformally Stationary-Closed Spacetimes

    • Juan A. Aledo
    • José A. Gálvez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 651 - 665

11. Self-Interacting Gas in a Gravitational Wave Field

    • Alexander B. Balakin
    • Winfried Zimdahl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 667 - 683

12. Letter: Hierarchy and Wave Functions in a Simple Quantum Cosmology

    • T. R. Mongan

    Letter Pages: 685 - 688

13. Letter: A Model of Dark Energy for the Accelerating Universe

    • Yang Zhang

    Letter Pages: 689 - 696

14. Book Review: The Geometry of Hamilton and Lagrange Spaces. By Radu Miron, Dragos Hrimiuc, Hideo Shimada, and Sorin V. Sabau. 338p., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2001. EUR135.00 USD124.00 GBP85.00. ISBN 0792369262

    • Solange F. Rutz

    BookReview Pages: 697 - 701

15. Book Review: The Measurement of Time. Time, Frequency and the Atomic Clock. By Claude Audoin and Bernard Guinot. 346p., Cambridge University Press, 2001. GBP27.95 USD39.95, ISBN 0-521-00397-0 (paperback). GBP75.00 USD110.00, ISBN 0-521-80080-3 (hardback)

    • Claus Lämmerzahl

    BookReview Pages: 703 - 705