Orbital stability of bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with linear and nonlinear optical lattices

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 249, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2111-2146

  Lin, Tai Chia ^a,b   Wei, Juncheng ^c   Yao, Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taida Institute of Mathematical Sciences (TIMS)   (Taiwan)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 77956183232     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.06.020     Document Type: Article

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