PART A PLENARY SESSIONS

Chairperson: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
The Chronology Protection Conjecture STEPHEN W. HAWKING	3

Chairperson: Alexandre Dolgov
Deep Redshift Surveys as Probes of 100 Mpc Structures DAVID C. KOO, NANCY ELLMAN, RICHARD G. KRON, JEFFREY A. MUNN, ALEXANDER S. SZALAY, THOMAS J. BROADHURST and RICHARD S. ELLIS	17
The Relationship between Local Symmetries and Constraints in General Relativity and Other Classical Lagrangian Field Theories ROBERT M. WALD	26

EARLY UNIVERSE - Chairperson: Kei-ichi Maeda
Decaying Cosmological Constant and Constraints from Observations KATSUHIKO SATO, NAOSHI SUGWAMA and YUZURU YOSHII	43
Validity of the 'Thin Wall' Approximation to False Vacuum Decay WILLIAM A. HISCOCK and DAVID A. SAMUEL	55
How Can Extended Inflation Be Saved? DALIA S. GOLDWIRTH and HELMUT W. ZAGLAUER	60
Chaotic Behaviour of Mixmaster Cosmologies DAVID HOBILL	63
Superfluid-like Turbulence in Cosmology BEN-AMI GRADWOHL	66

Chairperson: James Hartle
Cosmology in Generalized Einstein Theories KEI-ICHI MAEDA	73
Extended Inflation and Brans-Dicke Dilaton MOTOHIKO YOSHIMURA	84
Soft Inflation and Generalized Einstein Theories ANDREW L. BERKIN and KEI-ICHI MAEDA	89
Multi-Inflation from Sixth and Higher Order Gravity HANS-J. SCHMIDT	92

CLASSICAL RELATIVITY - Chairperson: Joshua Goldberg
The Relation between the Measurement and Cauchy Problems of GTR ROBERT A. COLEMAN and HERBERT KORTE’	97
Relations between Riemann Tensor (from Metric) and Curvature Tensor from Symmetric Connection S. BRIAN EDGAR	120
Quasi-Local Hamiltonian for Gravitational Field JACEK JEZIERSKI and JERZY KIJOWSKI	123
Covariant Hamiltonian for Gravity Theories JAMES M. NESTER	126
Constraints of Pure-Connection Formulation of GR with Lcosm ¹ 0 ABHIJIT KSHIRSAGAR	129

Chairperson: C. Hoenselears
Gravitoelectromagnetism: Relativity of Splitting Formalisms ROBERT T. JANTZEN, PAOLO CARINI and DONATO BINI	135
Minisuperspace Killing Tensors and Exact Solutions KJELL ROSQUIST, CLAES UGGLA and ROBERT T. JANTZEN	138
Power Law Variables and Power Law Gauges CLAES UGGLA, ROBERT T. JANTZEN and KJELL ROSQUIST	142
Differential Form Approach for Rotating Fluids: New Solutions FRANCISCO J. CHINEA and L. M. GONZALEZ-ROMERO	145
New Progress on Twisting, Type-N Vacuum Solutions J. D. FINLEY III	148
The Gravitational Field of a Rotating Body DIETRICH KRAMER	151
Wahlquist-Estabrook Type Prolongations of the Expanding Vacuum Type N Equations MARK HICKMAN	154
Constrained Dynamics and Exterior Differential Systems DAVID HARTLEY, ROBIN W. TUCKER and PHILIP A. TUCKEY	157

DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (1) - Chairperson: Kimia Tsubono
Progress in Gravitational Wave Detection DAVID NICHOLSON, BERNARD F. SCHUTZ, JUSTIN R. SHUTTLEWORTH and W. JOHN WATKINS	163
Optical Problems in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antennas W. WINKLER, K. DANZMANN, A. RUDIGER and R. SCHILLING	176
The GEO Project - A Status Report JAMES HOUGH	192
Dynamically-Tuned Interferometers for the Detection of Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries BRIAN J. MEERS	195
Development of 100 M Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Antenna (TENKO-100) NOBUKI KAWASHIMA and TOSHIAKI YOKOTA	198

Chairperson: Ronald W. P. Drever
LF Gravitational Wave Experiments in Space RONALD W. HELLINGS	203
Gravitational Waves from Massive Coalescing Binaries: Spacecraft Searches Using Ka-Band Doppler Tracking MASSIMO TINTO, J. W. ARMSTRONG and H. D. WAHLQUIST	213
Anelasticity and Thermal Noise in Gravitational Wave Interferometers PETER R. SAULSON	215
A Numerical Model of a Dual Recycling Laser Interferometer A. TRIDGELL, DAVID E. McCLELLAND and C. M. SAVAGE	218
Progress Report on the Laser Interferometer at the University of Tokyo KIMIO TSUBONO, NORIKATSU MIO, AKIHIKO MIZUTANI and AKITOARAYA	221
The LIGO 40 m Prototype Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detector MICHAEL E. ZUCKER	224

PLENARY SESSIONS - Chairperson: James Hough
Topology Change in (2 + 1)-Dimensional Quantum Gravity AKIO HOSOYA	229
The U.S. LIGO Project ROCHUS E.VOGT	244

Chairperson: Motohiko Yoshimura
Novel Cosmologies from Modified Gravity Theories PAUL J. STEINHARDT	269
COBE Observations of the Early Universe GEORGE F. SMOOT	283

QUANTUM GRAVITY AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY (1) - Chairperson: Don Page
Loops, Gauge Fields and Gravity ABHAY ASHTEKAR	307
Quantum Cosmology May Not Need a Theory of Initial Condition WAI-MO SUEN and KENNETH YOUNG	320
Why is the Metric Nondegenerate? ROBERTO PERCACCI	323
Ashtekar Formalism in Classical and Quantum Gravity KIYOSHI KAMIMURA, SHINOBU MAKITA and TAKESHI FUKUYAMA	326
Quantum Mechanical Probabilities Not Restricted to Moments of Time NORIFUMI YAMADA and SHIN TAKAGI	329

COMPUTER AIDED RELATIVITY - Chairperson: Dalia S. Goldwirih
Progress in 3-D Numerical Relativity: Towards a Harmonic Code C. BONA and J. MASSO	335
The Constant-Mean-Curvature Slicing of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter Space-Time KEN-ICHI NAKAO	338
Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamics without Artificial Viscosity: Approximate Riemann Solvers JOSE’ MA. IBANEZ, ANTONIO MARQUINA, JOSE’ A. FONT, JOSE’ MA. MARTI’ and JUAN A. MIRALLES	341
Radiation Content of Initial Data Slices for Numerical Relativity ANDREW M. ABRAHAMS	345
Higher-Order Gravitational Waveforms and Radiation Recoil of Coalescing Binary Systems ALAN U. WISEMAN	348
PRECISION EXPERIMENTS (1) - Chairperson: Kazuaki Kuroda
Recent Developments in Solar-System Tests of General Relativity JOHN D. ANDERSON, J. K. CAMPBELL, R. F. JURGENS, E. L. LAU, X. X. NEWHALL, M. A. SLADE III and E. M. STANDISH JR	353
Macroscopic Experiments and Microscopic Experiments for Detecting and Testing Spin-Dependent (Semi-)Long-Range Forces: A Survey and Comparison WEI-TOU NI	356
Polarized-Body vs. Polarized-Body Torsion Balance Experiment for Measuring Possible Anomalous Spin-Spin Interactions SHEAU-SHI PAN, WEI-TOU NI and SHEN-CHE CHEN	364
Metric Theories of Gravity and Their Post-Newtonian Limit IGNAZIO CIUFOLINI	371
Gravity Probe B: II. Hardware Development; Progress Towards the Flight Instrument D. BARDAS, M. A. TABER, S. BUCHMAN, D. B. DeBRA, C. W. F. EVERITT, D. GILL, U. GREEN, U. GUTT, N.J. KASDIN, G.M. KEISER, J. A. LIPA, J. M. LOCKHART, B. MUHLFELDER, B. W. PARKINSON, J. P. TURNEAURE, R. A. VAN PATTEN, Y. XIAO, P. ZHOU, R. PARMLEY, C. REYNOLDS, S. CALHOON, R. CLAPPIER, D. FRANK, J. GRADY, J. GRAMMER, D. READ, J. SALMON and R. VASSAR	382
Gravity Probe B: III. The Precision Gyroscope Y. M. XIAO, D. BARDAS, S. BUCHMAN, C. COHEN, C. W. F. EVERITT, D. GILL, G.M. KEISER, R. A. VAN PATTEN, M. TABER, J. P. TURNEAURE, T. VAN HOOYDONK, T. WALTER and P. ZHOU	394

PLENARY SESSIONS - Chairperson: Y. M. Cho
Update on Planar Gravity (~ Physics of Infinite Cosmic Strings) ROMAN JACKIW	399
Path Integral Quantum Cosmology: Some Recent Developments JONATHAN J. HALLIWELL	412

Chairperson: Andrezej Krasinski
Coalescence of Binary Neutron Stars and Gravitational Radiation KEN-ICHI OOHARA and TAKASHI NAKAMURA	433



POSTER SESSIONS UNIFIED THEORIES AND LOW DIMENSIONAL GRAVITY

Unitary Theory of Two Dimensional Quantum Gravity and Its Exact Covariant Operator Solution MITSUO ABE	453
Topological Pregauge-Pregeometry KEIICHI AKAMA and ICHIRO ODA	456
The Polarizability of the Continuum, the Cosmological Constant Problem and Complex Fluctuations of the Metric in Einstein's Unified Field Theory S. ANTOCI	459
Axially Symmetric Black Holes with Solitons in Extra Dimensions T. AZUMA	464
Group Invariant Connections on Principal Fiber Bundles R. BAUTISTA, J. MUCINO, E. NAHMAD-ACHAR and M. ROSENBAUM	467
Structure of Spacetime Tangent Bundle HOWARD E. BRANDT	471
Constraints on the Core Magnetic Field of Neutron Stars Resulting from Magnetized Neutron Vortices H. F. CHAU, K. S. CHENG and K. Y. DING	474
Effects of Core Pinning in Magnetic Field Decay K. Y. DING, K. S. CHENG and H. F. CHAU	477
Gauge Theory for Extended Elementary Objects Involving Gravitation W.DRECHSLER	480
Elements de la Theorie des Toruons CLAUDE GAUTHIER	483
Reexamination of Perturbative Quantum Gravity SHOICHI ICHINOSE	486
Torsion Balance Experiment Searching for Finite-Range Mass-Spin Interactions TSUNG-HAW JEN, WEI-TOU NI, SHEAU-SHI PAN and SHIH-LIANG WANG	489
A Gauge Theory of Gravity-A Brief Survey TOSHIHARU KAWAI	495
Gauge Connection between Real and Non-Archimedean Structures of Space-Time ANDREW KHRENNIKOV	498
Quantum Effects of Lorentzian Wormliole SUNG-WON KIM	501
Scattering in 2 + 1 Dimensional Gravity DAVID LANCASTER	504
Noncommutative Geometry, Einstein Algebras and Algebraic Gauge Theories G. LANDI	507
Exact Solutions in Poincare Gauge Theory Derived from Einstein-Maxwell Theory SHIN-ICHI NAKARIKI	511
On the Embedding Models of Gravity and Their Prospects MATEV PAVSIC	514
Matrix Realization of Random Surfaces MISAO SASAKI and HIROSHI SUZUKI 517
Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Backlund Transformations in Three Dimensions WOLFGANG K. SCHIEF	520
A Gauge Theory of Spin 1/2 Dirac Field KAZUNARI SHIMA	524
Cosmic Strings from Higher-Dimensions KIYOSHI SHIRAISHI, ATSUSHI NAKAMURA, SATORU HIRENZAKI and MIHO MARUI	527
Bubble Dynamics in 2 + 1 Dimensions JIRO SODA	530
Antisymmetric Torsion Potential HARALD H. SOLENG	531
(q,p) Critical Point from the Two-Matrix Model TSUKASA TADA	534
2 + 1 Super de Sitter Gravity L. F. URRUTIA, H. WAELBROECK and F. ZERTUCHE	537
Homotopy Classification of Metrics in 2 + 1 Dimensions J. G. WILLIAMS and P. ZVENGROWSKI	540



QUANTUM GRAVITY AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY

An Example of the Vilkovisky-de Witt Effective Action in One-Loop Quantum Gravity BRUCE ALLEN, JOHN MC LAUGHLIN and ADRIAN C. OTTEWILL	545
Monte Carlo Simulations for Quantum Cosmology: The Minisuperspace Approximation BEVERLY K. BERGER	548
Exact Path Integration for Quantum Particles in Curved Spacetime CHRISTOPHER C. BERNIDO	551
Vacuum Energy in Ultrastatic Space-Time GUIDO COGNOLA, LUCIANO VANZO and SERGIO ZERBINI	554
Nucleation of a Universe in (2 + 1)-Dimensional Quantum Gravity Y. FUJIWARA	557
The Path Integral Measure of Linearized Gravity in Curved Spacetime HIROKI FUKUTAKA	560
Gravitational Thet~States in 2 + 1 Dimensional Quantum Cosmology DOMENICO GIULINI and JORMA LOUKO	563
Interacting Universes and Their Quantum Birth from Nothing KAZUG GHOROKU	566
Classical Self-Consistent Metric Fluctuations of de Sitter Space JEMAL GUVEN and MICHAEL P. RYAN, JR	569
Path Integrals and Boundary Conditions in Quantum Cosmology CLAUS KIEFER	572
Gravitational Instantons in Ashtekar Formalism HIROTO KUBOTANI, HIDEKI ISHIHARA and TAKESHI FUKUYAMA	576
Gravitational Effects of Negative Energy CHUNG-I KUO and L. H. FORD	579
Singular Self-Adjoint Quantum Cosmological Models in a Slow-Time Gauge NIVALDO A. LEMOS	582
Complex Solutions for a Scalar Field Model of the Universe GLENN LYONS	585
Gauge-Invariant and Gauge-Fixing Independent Effective Action in One-Loop Quantum Gravity S.D. ODINTSOV and I. N. SHEVCHENKO	588
Rindler Noise and Thermalization Theorem in the Flat Spacetime with a Boundary KOUJI OHNISHI and SHIN TAKAGI	591
Complex Wormholes for Quantum Gravity DONN.PAGE	594
Quantum Effects Associated to Scalar Particles in Tw~Dimensional Accelerated Frames of Reference UMBERTO PERCOCO, VICTOR M. VILLALBA and PIERRE PUJOL	597
Quantum-Gravitational Dynamics of Minkowski-Space Wormholes IAN H. REDMOUNT and WAI-MO SUEN	600
On the Group Quantization of Constrained Systems A Simple Non-Trivial Model MASAFUMI SERIU	603
Structure of Space-Time and Quantization P.K.SMRZ	606
Collapse of Wormhole Space and the Baby-Universe Production AKIRA TOMIMATSU	609
Vacuum Effects in a Spatially Homogeneous and Isotropic Cosmological Background VICTOR M. VILLALBA and UMBERTO PERCOCO	612



EARLY UNIVERSE

How General is Inflation in the Presence of a Non-Minimal Coupling? A. BARROSO, J. CASASAYAS, P. CRAWFORD, P. MONIZ and A. NUNES	617
Dynamical Systems Analysis of a String-Inspired Inflationary Model M. C. BENTO, O. BERTOLAMI and P. M. SA	622
On the Stability of Compactification After Inflation O. BERTOLAMI, J. M. MOURAO and YU A. KUBYSHIN	625
The Laplace Operator Determinants in Quantum Geometry of P-Branes Compactified on Constant Curvature Spacetimes A.A.BYTSENKO	629
Kaluza-Klein Type of Cosmological Models and Its Astrophysical Significances S. CHATTERJEE	633
Generality of Power-Law Inflation in the Bianchi-lX Spacetime YUICHI KITADA, KEI-ICHI MAEDA and JUN'ICHI YOKOYAMA	636
Explicit Solutions to the Dirac Equations on Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Spaces M. KOVALYOV and M. LEGARE	639
A Survey of Cosmological Exact Solutions ANDRZEJ KRASINSKI	642
The Density Perturbation in the Chaotic Inflation with a Non-minimally Coupled Scalar Field NOBUYOSHI MAKINO and MISAO SASAKI	646
Thermodynamic Variables of a Gas in Collision Dominated Equilibrium in General Relativity D. P. MASON and A. M. KGATHI	648
Topological Defects Produced by the Quantum Phase Transition MICHIYASU NAGASAWA and JUN 'ICHI YOKOYAMA	651
A Cosmological Model with Scale Invariance KIN-WANG NG	654
Decaying Cosmological Constant and Inflation TSUYOSHI NISHIOKA and YASUNORI FUJII	657
Gravitational Radiation by Vacuum Bubble Collision MASARU SHIBATA and YASUSADA NAMBU	660



CLASSICAL RELATIVITY

Nonstatic Fluid Spheres in More Than 4 Dimensions A. BANERJEE, S. B. DUTTA CHOUDHURY and S. CHATTERJEE	665
Tidal Accelerations and Curvature JOHN K. BEEM	667
Cosmology in Modified Lyra's Manifold AROONKUMAR BEESHAM and TIBERIO HARKO	670
Gravitational Topological Charge and Gravibreather V. BELINSKY	673
Could the '(err Geometry Contribute to the Collimation of Cosmic Jets J. BICA'K, O. SEMERAK and P. HADRAVA	674
Generalised Scalar-Tensor Theories and Extended Inflation ADRIAN BURD and ALAN COLEY	678
A Twistor Diagram for the Electromagnetic Energy-Momentum Four-Vector J. G. CARDOSO	682
Cosmological Yang Mills Fluids YVONNE CHOQUET-BRUHAT	685
Gravitational Entropy and Inflation A.COLEY	688
Transport in Relativistic Fluids T.H.DATE	691
New Quasi-Local Mass Constructions with Positive Mass A. DOUGAN and L. J. MASON	694
On Spherically Symmetric Solutions in Multidimensional Gravity S. B. FADEEV, V. D. IVASHCHUK and V. N. MELNIKOV	697
Vacuum Cosmological Solution in a 6D Universe TAKAO FUKUI	700
Geometric Reduction of Order of Black Hole Solutions S. E. GODFREY	703
Ashtekar Variables on a Null Surface JOSHUA N. GOLDBERG	706
The Structure of Colliding Plane Wave Space-Times J. B. GRIFFITHS	709
Gravity in 2 + 1 Dimensions Coupled to Particles A Flat Chern-Simons Gauge Theory G. GRIGNANI and G. NARDELLI	712
The Generic Condition is (Algebraically) Generic STEVEN G. HARRIS	715
A Hamiltonian Procedure for a Non-Hamiltonian Problem SERGIO A. HOJMAN, DARIO NU'NEZ and MICHAEL P. RYAN JR	718
Some Remarks on Twisting Type N Vacuum Solutions of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equations GARRY LUDWIG	722
On Rational Representation of Static and Stationary Axisymmetric Vacuum Solutions A.W.C.LUN	725
The Escape Velocity Near a Black Hole (Report) M.D. MAIA and VANDA SILVEIRA	728
Missing Link in the Theory of Gravity Interaction P. MAZILU	730
The Geometry of Degenerate Type 1 Weyl Spinors and Principal Null Directions C. B. G. MCINTOSH	733
Feynman's Equation for the Electron M. MISSONNIER and A. MUNIER	736
A General Solution of Einstein Equations Near Their Singularities S. L. PARNOVSKY 739
New External Stational Solutions for the Rotating Axially Symmetric Bodies in General Relativity S. L. PARNOVSKY	742
On Fermat's Principle in General Relativity VOLKER PERLICK	745
Relativistic Effects Arising from Non-Sphericity in the Parameterized Post-Newtonian Formalism BAHMAN SHAH ID-S ALESS and NEIL ASHBY	748
Surface Integrals of Poincare Algebra in Ashtekar's Formalism VLADIMIR SOLOVIEV	751
Causal Structure and the Positivity of Mass R. D. SORKIN and E. WOOLGAR	754
On the Electromagnetism in Gravity KIYOHISA TOKUNAGA	757
Classification of Bound and Unbound Geodesics in the Kerr Metric and Effective Particle Cross-Section of a Reissner-Nordström Black Hole A. F. ZAKHAROV	760
Gauge-Invariant Thermodynamical Description of Scalai Cosmological Perturbations WINFRIED ZIMDAHL	763



PART B PLENARY SESSIONS

Chairperson: Keiji Kikkawa
General Relativity at 75: How Right was Einstein? CLIFFORD M. WILL	769

Chairperson: S. M. Chitre
Recent Mathematical Results in General Relativity and Their Implications for Gravitational Wave Experiments DEMETRIOS CHRISTODOULOU	789
Realization of Minimal Isocurvature Scenario in Power-Law Inflation MISAO SASAKI	800

UNIFIED THEORIES AND LOW DIMENSIONAL GRAVITY - Chairperson: Noboru Katvamoio
Black Holes and Strings in Two Dimensions HERMAN VERLINDE	813
Topological Strings from Liouville Gravity NOBUYUKI ISHIBASHI	832

Chairperson: Kazuo Fujikawa
Simplicial Quantum Gravity in Two and Three Dimensions JAN AMBJØRN	837
A Lattice Theory with Curvature and Exact Translation Symmetry HENRI WAELBROECK, LUIS URRUTIA and FEDERICO ZERTUCHE	847
Gravitation and Anyon Y. M. CHO and D. H. PARK	850
Four-dimensional Conformal Gravity from Four-dimensional Generalized Chern-Simons Action NOBORU KAWAMOTO and YOSHIYUKI WATABIKI	857

GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE AND COMPACT OBJECTS - Chairperson: Akira Tomimatsu
Ginga Results of X-ray Spectra from Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Objects K. KOYAMA and H. AWAKI	863
A Method for Measuring the Mass of the Central Black Hole in Disk-Accreting AGNs LUIGI STELLA	874
Quasi-Normal Modes of Schwarzschild Black Holes: A New Approach HANS-PETER NOLLERT 877
Magnetohydrodynamic Flows in Kerr Geometry M. TAKAHASHI. K. HIROTANI and A. TOMIMATSU	881

Chairperson: Luigi Stella
Compact Scalar Stars EDWARD SEIDEL and WAI-MO SUEN	887
Torsion and Magnetic Inclination Distribution of Pulsars CHENG-MIN ZHANG, GUO-CEN YANG, XIN-JI WU and MING-CHENG LIU	890
Axisymmetric, Rotating Masses, Dynamical Equilibrium and Stability SIMONETTA FILIPPI and ALONSO SEPULVEDA	893
Gravithermal Instability of Selfgravitating Systems with an Energy Cut-off in their Distribution Function DINO BOCCALETTI, M. MERAFINA and R. RUFFINI	897

OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY AND LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE (1) - Chairperson: Kenji Tomija
New Gravitational Theories as Alternatives to Dark Matter JACOB D. BEKENSTEIN	905
Biased Galaxy Formation with Baryonic Dark Matter MASAHIRO MORIKAWA	925
Cosmological Consequences of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation with Massive Gravitons YU. V. CHUGREEV	944
Strongly Interacting Dark Matter as a Heating Source of Jovian Planets M. KAWASAKI, H. MURAYAMA and T. YANAGIDA	947
Nonflat Perturbation Spectra STEFAN GOTTLOBER, JAN MUCKET and VOLKER MULLER	950

Chairperson: Satoru Ikeuchi
Directional Two Points Correlation Function for CFA Catalogue HYUNG-WON LEE and REMO RUFFINI	955
A Potential Technique to Find Candidates of Distant Clusters of Galaxies YULIN BIAN	958
3D Calculations of Galaxy Formation in Two-Component Dark Matter Universe MASAYUKI UMEMURA	961
Formation of Large-Scale Structure by Open Cosmic String and Fragmentation of Wake TETSUYA HARA and SHIGERU MIYOSHI	964
Redshift Periodicity in Cosmological Models NAOTERU GOUDA and NAOSHI SUGIYAMA	967
Dipole and Quadrupole Anisotropies in the Luminosity Distance NAOSHI SUGIYAMA, MISAO SASAKI and MASUMI KASAI	970

PLENARY SESSIONS - Chairperson: Peter Michelson
Why do We still Expect a Gravity-Like Force of Macroscopic Force-Range? YASUNORI FUJII	975
Resonant Bar Gravity Wave Detectors-Past, Present & Future WILLIAM 0. HAMILTON	988

Chairperson: Li Zhi Fang
Topology Change in Lorentzian and Riemannian Gravity G. W. GIBBONS	1013
Pulsars and General Relativity R. N. MANCHESTER	1033

QUANTUM GRAVITY AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY (2) - Chairperson: Noboru Nakanishi
Quantum Gravity and String Theory - What Have We Learned? ANDREW STROMINGER	1057
Quantum Gravity by the Complex Canonical Theory HIDEO KODAMA	1074
Spacetime Coarse Grainings in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Cosmology JAMES B. HARTLE	1084
Perturbations versus Reality in Quantum Minisuperspaces JEMAL GUVEN, MARCOS ROSENBAUM and MICHAEL P. RYAN, JR	1086
The Quantum Stress-Energy Tensor for Charged Black Holes PAUL R. ANDERSON, WILLIAM A. HISCOCK and DAVID A. SAMUEL	1089

PRECISION EXPERIMENTS (2) - Chairperson: Wei-Tou Ni
Precision Measurement of Gravitational Constant KAZUAKI KURODA and ATSUSHI ONAE	1095
Searching for New Macroscopic Forces-by Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle in the Field of the Earth YUE SU	1109
Torsion Balance Development for Improved Equivalence Principle Tests R. D. NEWMAN	1112
Static Plane Symmetric Spacetimes ASGHAR QADIR and M. ZIAD	1115
Detectability of Non-Newtonian Gravity by Geophysical Experiments HIDEO HANADA	1119
Present Status of Searches for Non-Newtonian Gravity EPHRAIM FISCHBACH and CARRICK TALMADGE	1122

OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY AND LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE (2) - Chairperson: Toshifumi Futamase
General Relativistic Description of a Realistic Inhomogeneous Universe TOSHIFUMI FUTAMASE	1135
Gravitational Lens Effect on Cosmological Observations KAZUYA WATANABE	1146
Halo Dark Mass Detection Through Gravitational Lensing PHILIPPE JETZER	1149
Cell Structure Formation of Domain Walls H. ISHIHARA, H. KUBOTANI and Y. NAMBU	1155
Gravitational Radiation and Black Holes from Loops and Domain Walls C.BARRABES	1158
Gravitational Radiation from Axisymmetric Systems and Infinite Cosmic Strings J.BICAK	1161

PLENARY SESSIONS - Chairperson: L. H. Ford
Topology Change in General Relativity GARY T. HOROWITZ	1167
Japanese Plan for Gravitational Wave Astronomy MASA-KATSU FUJIMOTO	1182

Chairperson: F. Eve riji
Quantum Mechanics of the Primordial Cosmological Perturbations L. P. GRISHCHUK	1197
Initial Conditions for Inflation, Entropy and the Arrow of Time DALIA S. GOLDWIRTH and TSVI PIRAN	1211

QUANTUM GRAVITY AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY (3) - Chairperson: Jonathan Halliwell
Physical Effects in Wormholes and the "Time Machine" Problem VALERY P. FROLOV	1233
No Inflation from Self-consistent Semiclassical Gravity JONATHAN Z. SIMON	1246
How to Solve the Operator Formalism of Quantum Einstein Gravity Without Using C-Number Background Metric NOBORU NAKANISHI	1249
Semiclassical Wormhole SUMIO WADA	1253

CLASSICAL RELATIVITY (2) - Chairperson: Robert Jantzen
The Black Hole Nucleus WERNER ISRAEL	1259
Dynamical Black Hole Spacetimes D. BERNSTEIN, D. HOBILL, E. SEIDEL and L. SMARR	1276
Thermodynamic Properties of Kerr Black Holes OSAMU KABURAKI and ISAO OKAMOTO	1279
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics THIBAULT DAMOUR, MICHAEL SOFFEL and CHONGMING XU	1282

DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (2) - Chairperson: Nobuki Kawashima
The New Gravitational Wave Antenna System with Noncontacting Readout at the University of Western Australia DAVID BLAIR, P. J. TURNER, D. BERINSON, JU LI, F. VAN '(ANN, N. P. LINTHORNE. A. G. MANN, PENG HONG and M. E. TOBAR	1293
Status Report on the Rome Gravitational Wave Experiment P. ASTONE, M. BASSAN, P. BONIFAZI, M. G. CASTELLANO, G. CAVALLARI, E. COCCIA, C. COSMELLI, V. FAFONE, S. FRASCA, E. MAJORANA, I. MODENA, G. V. PALLOTTINO, G. PIZZELLA P. RAPAGNANI, F. RICCI and M. VISCO	1311
Laser Interferometric Transducer for Gravitational Radiation Antenna AKIHIKO MIZUTANI, AKITO ARAYA, KIMIO TSUBONO and NORIKATSU MIO	1316
A High-Q Disk Antenna with Two Resonant Masses N. AKASAKA, T. SUZUKI, Y. OGAWA, N. KUDO and K. MORIMOTO	1319
Quasi-Stroboscopic Back-Action Evasion Measurements for Resonant-Bar Gravitational Wave Antennae LINDA E. MARCHESE, MARK F. BOCKO and ROBERTO ONOFRIO	1322
Fifth Force Measurements from a Free Falling Platform at Balloon Altitudes FRANCO FULIGNI and VALERIO IAFOLLA	1325



POSTER SESSIONS COMPUTER AIDED RELATIVITY

Gravitational Waveforms from the Head-on Collision of Relativistic Stars ANDREW M. ABRAHAMS and CHARLES R. EVANS	1331
Numerical Relativity: Combining the Cauchy and Characteristic Initial Value Problems N. T. BISHOP	1334
Anisotropic Foliations of the De Sitter Space P. CRAWFORD and P. VARGAS MONIZ	1337
A Gravitational Instanton from Jacobson's Condition? PIERRE GRAVEL	1340
Three-Dimensional Numerical Study of Inhomogeneous Chaotic Inflation PABLO LAGUNA, HANNU KURKI-SUONIO and RICHARD A. MATZNER	1343
Self-Similar Gravitational Dust Collapse and the Formation of Naked Singularities JOSII P.S. LEMOS	1346
Dynamical Lattice Simulations of General Relativity PETRI MAHONEN	1348
Non-Existence of Apparent Horizons for Elongated Configurations of Matter Having Small Mass JACEK WOJTKIEWICZ	1351



GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE AND COMPACT OBJECTS
Inertial and Gravitational Effects in Quantum Systems Y. Q. CAl and G. PAPINI	1357
Force on a Charged Particle Orbiting Around a Kerr-Newman Black Hole SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI and ANWAR Y. SHIEKH	1360
Production of Primordial Magnetic Field in the Universe SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI	1363
Observable Relic Features of Soliton Stars from Early Universe HONG-YEE CHIU	1366
Steady Relativistic Magnetized Jets MARK R. DUBAL and ORNELLA PANTANO	1369
Structure of Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars Y. ERIGUCHI, I. HACHISU and K. NOMOTO	1372
A New Energy Momentum Tensor and a Possibility of Snapping of a Free Cosmic String Loop Y. ERIGUCHI and T. FUTAMASE	1375
Zeropoint Energy and the Quest of Complete Gravitational Collapse LEOPOLD HALPERN	1378
Unified Description of Spin and Angular Momentum in a Higher-Dimensional Theory LEOPOLD HALPERN	1380
High-Energy X-Ray Production in Accreting Neutron Stars TOMOYUKI HANAWA	1382
The Effects of Black Hole Spin on Line Profiles from Accretion Disks YASUFUMI KOJIMA	1385
Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Wind-Fed Accretion Flow TAKUYA MATSUDA and KEISUKE SAWADA	1388
Canonical Structure of Time Variations of X-Rays from Blach Hole Candidates SIGENORI MIYAMOTO, SHUNJI KITAMOTO, SAYURI IGA, HITOSHI NEGORO and KENTARO TERADA	1391
Dynamical Instability of General Relativistic Rotating Fluid KUNJI NAKAYAMA and TOMOYUKI HANAWA	1394
General Relativistic Thick Disk around a Black Hole or a Star SHOGO NISHIDA, YOSHIHARU ERIGUCHI and ANTONIO LANZA	1397
Effects of Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion Flows on Global Structure of a Kerr Black Hole Magnetosphere SHIN-YA NITTA and AKIRA TOMIMATSU	1400
Relativistic Light Deflection and Light Curves of X-Ray Pulsars H.-P. NOLLERT, U. KRAUS, H. RUDER and H. HEROLD	1403
Heat Capacities of Kerr-Newman Black Holes ISAO OKAMOTO and OSAMU KABURAKI	1406
Journey Through a Rotating Black Hole AMOS ORI	1409
Some Astrophysical Consequences of Spin-Gravity Coupling G. PAPINI and Y. Q. CAl	1412
Normal Mode Excitation from Collapse to Schwarzschild Black Holes EDWARD SEIDEL	1415
Can Pulsar Winds be Bipolar? (2-D Pulsar Wind Model) SHINPEI SHIBATA	1418
Galaxy Evolution with Gas Infall FUMIO TAKAHARA, YUZURU YOSHII and NOBUO ARIMOTO	1421
Origin of Cosmic X-Ray Background Radiation NOBUO TERASAWA	1424
Breaking Weyl Invariance at the Microscopic Scale W. R. WOOD and G. PAPINI	1427
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in the Jet-Like Supernova Explosion SHOICHI YAMADA and KATSUHIKO SATO	1430
Numerical Simulations of a Supernova Explosion YOSHIYUKI YAMADA, TAKASHI NAKAMURA and KEN 'ICHI OOHARA	1433
Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion Onto a Rotating Black Hole MASAYOSHI YOKOSAWA	1436



DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

Parametric Motion Transducer for Gravitational Wave Detectors ODYLIO D. AGUIAR, WARREN W. JOHNSON and WILLIAM 0. HAMILTON	1441
Multi-Stage Vibration Isolation Systems for Ultralow Temperature Resonant-Mass Gravitational Radiation Detectors THOMAS L. ALDCROFT, PETER F. MICHELSON and ROBERT C. TABER	1444
The Gravitational Wave Antenna Altair P. ASTONE, M. BASSAN, E. COCCIA, I. MODENA, P. BONIFAZI, M. VISCO, P. CARELLI, C. COSMELLI, S. FRASCA, G. V. PALLOTTINO, G. PIZZELLA, P. RAPAGNANI, F. RICCI, P. F. TOSCANO and E. MAJORANA	1447
Data Acquisition and Analysis of the Rome Group Gravitational Antennas P. ASTONE and S. FRASCA	1450
Automatic Control System for Mirrors Alignment of Interferometric Antenna Virgo A. AUGURIO, F. BARONE, E. CALLONI, L. DI FIORE, L. MILANO, G. RUSSO and S. SOLIMENO	1453
Theory and Application of the Sapphire Dielectric Resonator Transducer D. G. BLAIR, H. PENG and E. N. IVANOV	1456
Electron and Photon Tunneling Transducers for Gravitational Wave Antennae M. F. BOCKO, F. BORDONI, M. KARIM, R. ONOFRIO, C. PRESILLA, S. SCHILLER, K. A. STEPHENSON and N. ZHU	1459
Vibration Isolation Stacks for Gravitational Wave Detectors - Finite Element Analysis C. A. CANTLEY, J. HOUGH, N. A. ROBERTSON and R. J. S. GREENHALGH	1462
A Frequency Doubled C W Nd:YAG Laser for Gravitational Wave Detectors A. CARMICHAEL, J. HOUGH and G. NEWTON	1465
Monte Carlo Simulation of the Interaction of Cosmic Ray Hadrons and Muons with a Resonant-Mass Gravitational Radiation Antenna JAMES CHIANG, PETER MICHELSON and JOHN PRICE	1468
Coincidence Gravitational Wave Burst Experiments with Wide-Band Detectors of Differing Sensitivity R. W. P. DREVER, Y. GU~RSEL and M. TINTO	1471
The Rochester Para-Bridge Transducer MICHAEL A. FISHER, MARK F. BOCKO, MUNAWAR KARIM and GUI ZHEN ZHANG	1474
Figure Pattern for an Interferometric Device in a Free Falling Frame PIERLUIGI FORTINI and ANTONELLO ORTOLAN	1477
A Study of the Control System for Long-Baseline Laser Interferometer N. KAMIKUBOTA, K. FURUKAWA, K. NAKAHARA, Y. OGAWA and A. ASAMI	1480
Measurable Effect of Curvature on QED Phenomena MUNAWAR KARIM	1483
Test Mass Orientation Noise in the LIGO 40m Prototype SEIJI KAWAMURA	1486
Quantum Mechanical Noise of a Modulated Fabry-Perot Interferometer with Loss SUN-KUN KING and WEI-TOU NI	1489
High Dynamic Range Measurements of an All Metal Isolator Using a Sapphire Transducer JU LI, D. G. BLAIR, H. PENG and F. VAN KANN	1493
Gravitational Waves and Modification of Einstein's Equation C. Y. LO	1496
An Investigation of Some Mechanical Properties of Materials for Test Masses in Laser Gravitational Wave Detectors J. E. LOGAN, N. A. ROBERTSON. J. HOUGH and P. J. VEITCH	1499
Pendulum Design for Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector NORIKATSU MIO, KEITA KAWABE, SHIGENORI MORIWAKI and KIMIO TSUBONO	1502
Current Status of the Glasgow lOm Prototype Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector E. MORRISON, J. HOUGH, B. J. MEERS, G. P. NEWTON, D. I. ROBERTSON, K. A. STRAIN, P. J. VEITCH and H. WARD	1505
Laser Interferometer Test Facility at KEK Y. OGAWA, Y. SAITO, N. KAMIKUBOTA, T. SHIDARA, Y. HIGASHI, K. FURUKAWA, T. SUZUKI, K. MORIMOTO, A. ASAMI and G. HORIKOSHI	1508
Design of a Prototype Fabry-Perot Interferometer with 20m Armlength MASATAKE OHASHI and MASA-KATSU FUJIMOTO	1511
A Study of Tilting and Longitudinal Oscillations in Fabry- Perot Resonators Used as GW Interferometric Detectors S. SOLIMENO, F. BARONE, C. DE LISIO, L. DI FIORE, L. MILANO and G. RUSSO	1514
The 1991 LSU Gravitational Radiation Detector: Modifications, Performance, and Prospects N. SOLOMONSON, 0. AGUIAR, Z. GENG, W. 0. HAMILTON, W. W. JOHNSON, S. MERKOWITZ, B. PRICE, B. XU and N. ZHU	1517
Development of a Niobium Thin-Film Transducer for a Gravitational Wave Antenna THOMAS R. STEVENSON	1520
Detection for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Wave by Two Cryogenic Detectors T. SUZUKI, N. AKASAKA and K. MORIMOTO	1523
Simulation of a Two-Mode Resonant Bar Antenna with a Parametric Transducer M. E. TOBAR, D. G. BLAIR, N. P. LINTHORNE and P. J. TURNER	1526
Cryogenic Design for Gravity Wave Antenna Suspensions P. J. TURNER and D. G. BLAIR	1529



OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY AND LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE

Stellar Nucleosynthesis, Supernovae, Metal Enrichment in Galaxies and in the Intracluster Medium L. ANGELETTI and P. GIANNONE	1535
Remarks on Inhomogeneous Universes: The Age Problem S. BILDHAUER and T. FUTAMASE	1538
Non-linear Effect of the Inhomogeneity on the Determination of ~o STEFAN BILDHAUER, OSAMU ASO, MASUMI KASAI and TOSHIFUMI FUTAMASE	1541
Scaling Properties of the Large-Scale Structure DANIELA CALZETTI, MAURO GIAVALISCO and AVERY MEIKSIN	1544
Non-Empty Voids in Expanding Universes A. CHAMORRO	1547
On Axisymmetric Solutions of Jeans Equations PIERO CIPRIANI. GIUSEPPE PUCACCO and REMO RUFFINI	1550
Limits on Neutrino Mass from Improved Astrophysical Observations M. DI BARI, R. RUFFINI and S. TARAGLIO	1554
Gauge-Invariant Perturbations in Multi-Component Fluid Cosmologies PETER K. S. DUNSBY 1558
An Alternative Approach to the Statistical Investigation of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe V. G. GURZADYAN, V. V. HARUTYUNYAN and A. A. KOCHARYAN	1561
Electromagnetic Radiation from Rotating Objects Around a Black Hole HITOSHI HANAMI	1562
Galactic Halos and Limits on the Particle Mass G. INGROSSO, M. MERAFINA, R. RUFFINI and F. STRAFELLA	1565
Not So Opaque Spiral Galaxies MARC LACHIEZE-REY, C. CESARSKY, D. COX, I. F. MIRABEL, J. RICH, M. SPIRO and S. ZYLBERAJCH	1573
A Data Simulation Program for the VIRGO Detector B. MOURS and I. WINGERTER-SEEZ	1576
On HI Absorption Systems of High-Redshift Quasars-A Possibility of Unified Picture with Minihalo Model IZUMI MURAKAMI and SATORU IKEUCHI	1579
Anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation by Domain Wall Networks YASUSADA NAMBU, H. ISHIHARA, N. GOUDA and N. SUGIYAMA	1582
The Decelerating Shock Instability and Galaxy Formation RYOICHI NISHI	1585
Relaxation Times in Systems with Long Range Interaction GIUSEPPE PUCACCO	1588
Effect of Rayleigh Scattering on Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies SHIN SASAKI and FUMIO TAKAHARA	1593
Numerical Determination of Critical Winding in Texture A. SORNBORGER. T. PROKOPEC and R. H. BRANDENBERGER	1596
Dark Matter and Merging of Galaxies in Compact Groups D. SUGIMOTO, T. EBISUZAKI, T. ITO, J. MAKINO and S. OKUMURA	1599
The Late Professor Nariai and His Theories on Gravitation and Universe KENJI TOMITA	1602
Galactic Gravitational Lensing and Cosmological Models KENJI TOMITA	1605
Spectral Analysis for Existence of Three Integrals in Triaxial Stellar Systems T. TSUCHIYA, N. GOUDA and Y. YAMADA	1608
The Relaxation Process of One Dimensional Mass Sheets System TOSHINOBU YAMASHIRO, NAOTERU GOUDA and MASA-AKI SAKAGAMI	1611
Spherical Opaque Lens Model in Statistical Gravitational Lens Effect and Its Implication to the Density Parameter HIROSHI YOSHIDA and MINORU OMOTE	1614



PRECISION EXPERIMENTS

Torsion and Non-Metricity in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity JEAN-PAUL BERTHIAS and BAHMAN SHAHID-SALESS	1619
Gravitoelectromagnetism: Applications to Rotating Minkowski, Gidel, and Kerr Spacetimes DONATO BINI, PAGLO CARINI and ROBERT T. JANTZEN	1622
Test of Spatial Isotropy Using Polarized-Bodies SHEN-CHE CHEN, WEI-TOU NI, SHEAU-SHI PAN, GYH-BIN WANG and HSIEN-CHI YEH	1625
The Design and Progress Report of Nuclear-Polarized Body Experiments to Test the Equivalence Principle and Spin-Dependent Long Range Forces by Using a Dilution Refrigerator J. M. DANIELS and WEI-TOU NI	1629
Gravity Probe B: I. The Scientific Implications C. W. F. EVERITT	1632
The Correlated Emission Laser Gyroscope- A Physical Picture and an Experimental Proposal H. HEITMANN, R. J. HOROWICZ and Y. YAMAMOTO	1645
Pulsar Timing Observation at Usuda Deep Space Center JUN HIRAO, NOBUKI KAWASHIMA, HISASHI HIRABAYASHI, TADASHI TAKANO and TOSHIMITSU NISHIMURA	1648
Fractal Nature of Time-Proposal for New Experiments IRSHADULLAH KHAN	1651
Relativistic Time Scales in Pulsar Timing S. M. KOPEJKIN	1654
Relativistic Manifestations of Gravitational Fields in Gravimetry and Geodesy S. M. KOPEJKIN	1657
On a Gravitational Emission in the Case of a Nonzero Graviton Mass YU. M. LOSKUTOV	1658
Null Experiment of 1990 Solar Eclipse Observed by a Torsion Pendulum LUO JUN, LI JIANGUO, ZHANG XUERONG, FAN SHUHUA, V. LIAKHOVETS, M. LOMONOSOV and A. RAGYN	1661
Coordinate Independence of Physical Observables in the Classical Tests of General Relativity TADAYUKI OHTA and TOSHIEI KIMURA	1664
Electrical Properties of Matter in Gravitational Fields GEOFFREY I. OPAT	1667
Testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle with the Stanford Gyro Experiment MICHAEL P. REISENBERGER	1670
A Kind of Theory on Scalar-Electromagnetic-Gravitational United Fields WANG YONGJIU, TANG ZHIMING and YU HONGWEI	1673
Reduction of Effective "Spring Constants" Using Gravitational Fields ZHANG PINGHUA and R. D. NEWMAN	1676

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