Elliptic algebro-geometric solutions of the KdV and AKNS hierarchies - An analytic approach

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 271-317

  Gesztesy, Fritz ^a   Weikard, Rudi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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