Solitary waves and their linear stability in weakly coupled KdV equations

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 535-570

  Wright, J Douglas ^a   Scheel, Arnd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

KdV equations; Solitary waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547304232     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00033-006-6076-5     Document Type: Article

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