Global existence for small initial data in the Born-Infeld equations

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 6132-6139

  Chae, Dongho ^a   Huh, Hyungjin ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 0345149788     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1621057     Document Type: Article

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