Progress in classical and quantum variational principles

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-208

  Gray, C G ^a   Karl, G ^a   Novikov, V A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 1542347542     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/67/2/R02     Document Type: Article

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