An extension of the steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems: The small dispersion limit of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 450-454

  Deift, P ^a   Venakides, S ^b   Zhou, X ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0031881570     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.2.450     Document Type: Article

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