Collective coordinates and length-scale competition in spatially inhomogeneous soliton-bearing equations

SIAM Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 579-615

  Sánchez, Angel ^a   Bishop, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective coordinates; Length scales; Nonlinear Schr dinger; Nonperturbative results; Perturbation theories; Sine Gordon; Solitons; Spatially dependent perturbations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

COLLECTIVE COORDINATE METHOD; LENGTH-SCALE COMPETITION PHENOMENON; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SINE-GORDON EQUATION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0032165150     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144597317418     Document Type: Article

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