Breathers as homoclinic geometric wave maps

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 99, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 113-133

  Shatah, Jalal ^a   Strauss, Walter ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breather; Harmonic maps; Homoclinic; Sine Gordon equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040474801     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(96)00156-X     Document Type: Article

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