Metastability of breather modes of time-dependent potentials

Nonlinearity

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 507-568

  Miller, P D ^a,b   Soffer, A ^c   Weinstein, M I ^d,e  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0034178540     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/13/3/303     Document Type: Article

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