Essential instability of pulses and bifurcations to modulated travelling waves

Royal Society of Edinburgh - Proceedings A

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1263-1290

  Sandstede, B ^a   Scheel, A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 22844455596     PISSN: 03082105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0308210500019387     Document Type: Article

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