Geodesic flows on diffeomorphisms of the circle, grassmannians, and the geometry of the periodic KDV equation

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1027-1092

  Schonbek, Maria E ^a   Todorov, Andrey N ^b   Zubelli, Jorge P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (India)

^c IMPA   (Brazil)

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EID: 79551469525     PISSN: 10950761     EISSN: 10950753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/atmp.1999.v3.n4.a6     Document Type: Article

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