Existence of standing pulse solutions to an inhomogeneous reaction-diffusion system

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-35

  Jones, Christopher K R T ^a   Rubin, Jonathan E ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric singular perturbation; Inhomogeneous reaction diffusion system; Semiconductor Fabry P rot interferometer; Standing waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084116     PISSN: 10407294     EISSN: 15729222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022651311294     Document Type: Article

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