Classical solutions in the Born-Infeld theory

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 456, Issue 1995, 2000, Pages 615-640

  Yang, Yisong ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained minimization; Electromagnetic fields; Hodge dual; Nonlinear elliptic equations; Riemann surfaces; Solitons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011340180     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2000.0533     Document Type: Article

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