Competition between nonlinearity, dispersion and randomness in signal propagation

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-286

  Komarova, Natalia L ^a,b   Newell, Alan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SIGNAL PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0033330257     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/63.3.267     Document Type: Article

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