On the Cauchy problem for a dynamical Euler's elastica

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 271-300

  Burchard, Almut ^a   Thomas, Lawrence E ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastica; Hasimoto transformation; Wave maps; Well posedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038811611     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/PDE-120019382     Document Type: Article

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