A refined invariant subspace method and applications to evolution equations

Science China Mathematics

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1769-1778

  Ma, Wen Xiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

evolution equation; generalized separation of variables; invariant subspace

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865560041     PISSN: 16747283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11425-012-4408-9     Document Type: Article

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