Existence of multi-pulses of the regularized short-pulse and Ostrovsky equations

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 607-622

  Manukian, Vahagn ^a,e   Costanzino, Nicola ^b   Jones, Christopher K R T ^c   Sandstede, Björn ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Lin's method; Multi pulses; Orbit flip; Short pulse; Singular perturbation

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149087450     PISSN: 10407294     EISSN: 15729222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10884-009-9147-4     Document Type: Article

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