Spectrally stable encapsulated vortices for nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 347-394

  Pego, R L ^a   Warchall, H A ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Azimuthal modes; Evans function; Instability; Multidimensional solitons; Polydiacetylene paratoluene sulfonate; Saturable media; Solitary wave; Stability; Vortex soliton; Vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001350576     PISSN: 09388974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-002-0475-3     Document Type: Article

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