Unified approach to KdV modulations

DOI10.1002/cpa.10002zbMath1032.35156arXivnlin/0008007MaRDI QIDQ4790254

Stephanos Venakides, Alexander L. Krylov, Gennady A. El

Publication date: 28 January 2003

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0008007

zbMATH Keywords

Whitham modulation equations; KdV-Whitham hierarchy; oscillating phases; zero-dispersion KdV

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q53: KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations)

37K20: Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and special functions

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