Well-posedness, global existence, and blowup phenomena for a periodic quasi-linear hyperbolic equation

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 475-504

  Constantin, Adrian ^a   Escher, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

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EID: 0032374820     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199805)51:5<475::AID-CPA2>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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