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The paper is concerned with the construction of exact solutions for nonlinear pseudodifferential equations which describe tachyon dynamics of open-closed p-adic strings. Existence of continuous solutions and their properties are discussed.
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Dedicated to Igor Vasilievich Volovich on the occasion of his 65th birthday
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