Structural stability of non-ground state traveling waves of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 124, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 137-165

  Li, Y A ^a   Promislow, K ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian perturbation; Liapunov Schmidt reduction; Non ground states; Structural stability; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 11544364689     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00184-5     Document Type: Article

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