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The emergence of solitons of the Korteweg-de Vries equation from arbitrary initial conditions

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  • Reflection Coefficient
  • Dispersive Wave
  • Inverse Scattering
  • Schrodinger Equation
  • Arbitrary Initial Condition

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Schuur, P.C. (1986). The emergence of solitons of the Korteweg-de Vries equation from arbitrary initial conditions. In: Asymptotic Analysis of Soliton Problems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0073056

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