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Theory and applications of the sine-gordon equation

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Barone, A., Esposito, F., Magee, C.J. et al. Theory and applications of the sine-gordon equation. La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 1, 227–267 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02820622

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