Solitary Waves and Their Linear Stability in Nonlinear Lattices

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 275-298

  Hwang, G ^a   Akylas, T R ^b   Yang, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LATTICE THEORY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STABILITY;

ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; EIGEN-VALUE; LATTICE PERIODS; LINEAR STABILITY; LINEAR STABILITY PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR LATTICES; PERTURBATION EXPANSIONS; RECURRENCE RELATIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84857801781     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: 14679590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9590.2011.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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