Multibump solutions of nonlinear periodic schrödinger equations in a degenerate setting

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 269-298

  Ackermann, Nils ^a   Weth, Tobias ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degenerate setting; Multibump solution; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 20644457564     PISSN: 02191997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219199705001763     Document Type: Article

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