The N-soliton of the focusing nonlinear schrödinger equation for N large

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 951-1026

  Lyng, Gregory D ^a,b   Miller, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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EID: 34249706371     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20162     Document Type: Article

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