Conservative solutions to a nonlinear variational wave equation

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 471-497

  Bressan, Alberto ^a   Zheng, Yuxi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33746215045     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-006-0047-8     Document Type: Article

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