Stability of solitary waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with inhomogeneous nonlinearities

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 96-108

  Fibich, Gadi ^a   Wang, Xiao Ping ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Inhomogeneous nonlinearities; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Solitary waves; Stability

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SOLITARY WAVES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0037437726     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00626-7     Document Type: Article

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