Soliton management in periodic systems

Soliton Management in Periodic Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-180

  Malomed, Boris A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-29334-5     Document Type: Book

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