The Toda system and clustering interfaces in the Allen-Cahn equation

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-187

  Del Pino, Manuel ^a   Kowalczyk, Michał ^a   Wei, Juncheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 50249108359     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: 14320673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-008-0143-3     Document Type: Article

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