Sign-Changing multi-bump solutions for nonlinear schrödinger equations with steep potential wells

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 361, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 6205-6253

  Sato, Yohei ^a   Tanaka, Kazunaga ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Critical frequency; Nonlinear schr dinger equations; Sign changing solutions; Singular perturbation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950659711     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04565-6     Document Type: Article

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