On the stability of multibreathers in Klein-Gordon chains

Nonlinearity

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2269-2285

  Koukouloyannis, Vassilis ^a,b   Kevrekidis, Panayotis G ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 70350654587     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: 13616544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/22/9/011     Document Type: Article

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