Breather and soliton wave families for the sine-Gordon equation

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 454, Issue 1977, 1998, Pages 2409-2423

  Vltanov, Nlkolay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breathers; Josephson junction; Sine gordon equation; Solitons; Steuerwald lamb ansatz

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444400055     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1998.0264     Document Type: Article

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