Semiclassical Soliton Ensembles for the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Annals of Mathematics Studies

Volumn , Issue 154, 2003, Pages

  Kamvissis, Spyridon ^a   McLaughlin, Kenneth D T R ^a   Miller, Peter D ^a  

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