Rarefactive solutions to a nonlinear variational wave equation of liquid crystals

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 381-419

  Zhang, Ping ^a   Zheng, Yuxi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000642792     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/PDE-100002240     Document Type: Article

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