On the Bäcklund-gauge transformation and homoclinic orbits of a coupled nonlinear Schrödinger system

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 104-116

  Wright, Otis C ^a,b   Forest, M Gregory ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

B cklund transformation; Coupled NLS equations; Gauge transformation; Homoclinic orbit; Lax pair

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347740476     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2789(00)00021-x     Document Type: Article

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