Breathers as homoclinic geometric wave maps

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(96)00156-XzbMath0890.58009MaRDI QIDQ2564791

Walter A. Strauss, Jalal Shatah

Publication date: 3 February 1997

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsine-Gordon equationbreather solutionshomoclinic wave map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

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