Geodesics on vibrating surfaces and curvature of the normal family

Nonlinearity

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2737-2743

  Levi, Mark ^a   Ren, Qiran ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 26944452775     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/18/6/017     Document Type: Article

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