Purely Nonlinear Instability of Standing Waves with Minimal Energy

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1565-1607

  Comech, Andrew ^a,c   Pelinovsky, Dmitry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 2442581311     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.10104     Document Type: Article

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