Compact solitary waves in linearly elastic chains with non-smooth on-site potential

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 4493-4509

  Gaeta, Giuseppe ^a   Gramchev, Todor ^b   Walcher, Sebastian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 34547339304     PISSN: 17518113     EISSN: 17518121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/40/17/007     Document Type: Article

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