Long-lived oscillons from asymmetric bubbles: Existence and stability

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Almeida, Carlos A S ^b   Gleiser, Marcelo ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC BUBBLE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OSCILLON; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TIME;

EID: 4644308900     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.085011     Document Type: Article

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