The stationary equations of a coupled nonlinear Schrödinger system

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 275-289

  Wright, Otis C ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Integrable system; Lax pair; Lie algebra; Quasiperiodic solutions; Riemann surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012657873     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00271-1     Document Type: Article

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