Resonances, radiation damping and instability in Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equations

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-74

  Soffer, A ^a   Weinstein, M I ^b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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EID: 0033460613     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220050303     Document Type: Article

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