Wave propagation in almost-periodic structures

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 113-127

  Mantica, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Almost periodic systems; Fourier transform of orthogonal polynomials; Iterated function systems; Jacobi matrices; Julia sets; Multi fractal dimensions; Quantum intermittency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000306155     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00163-2     Document Type: Article

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