On the existence of soliton solutions to quasilinear Schrödinger equations

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-344

  Poppenberg, Markus ^a   Schmitt, Klaus ^b   Wang, Zhi Qiang ^c  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036556880     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005260100105     Document Type: Article

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