Solitary waves on Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices: IV. Proof of stability at low energy

Nonlinearity

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 229-251

  Friesecke, G ^a   Pego, R L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

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EID: 0346671222     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/17/1/014     Document Type: Article

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