Solitary waves on FPU lattices: I. Qualitative properties, renormalization and continuum limit

Nonlinearity

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1601-1627

  Friesecke, G ^a   Pego, R L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

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EID: 0033229031     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/12/6/311     Document Type: Article

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