New Results in Small Dispersion KdV by an Extension of the Steepest Descent Method for Riemann-Hilbert Problems

International Mathematics Research Notices

Volumn , Issue 6, 1997, Pages 284-299

  Deift, P ^a   Venakides, S ^b   Zhou, X ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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