Singular and rarefactive solutions to a nonlinear variational wave equation

Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 159-170

  Zhang, Ping ^a   Yuxi, Zheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Existence; Wave equation; Young measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037832701     PISSN: 02529599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0252959901000152     Document Type: Article

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