Being stable and discrete

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 212-232

  Balmforth, N J ^a   Craster, R V ^b   Kevrekidis, P G ^c  

^a Instituto di Cosmogeofisica   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discretization; Evans function; Localized objects; Sine Gordon equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346688077     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00137-2     Document Type: Article

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