Some remarks on a WKB method for the nonselfadjoint Zakharov-Shabat eigenvalue problem with analytic potentials and fast phase

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 152-153, Issue , 2001, Pages 145-162

  Miller, Peter D ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nonselfadjoint eigenvalue problems; WKB methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035873340     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00166-X     Document Type: Article

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