Instability of standing waves of the Schrödinger equation with inhomogeneous nonlinearity

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 358, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2105-2122

  Liu, Yue ^a   Wang, Xiao Ping ^b   Wang, Ke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blowup; Ground state; Inhomogeneous nonlinearities; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Stability theory; Standing waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646708701     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03763-3     Document Type: Article

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