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Variational problems and Bäcklund transformations associated with the sine-gordon and Korteweg-deVries equations and their extensions

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  • Ultrashort Optical Pulse
  • Weierstrass Elliptic Function
  • Backlund Transformation
  • Arbitrary Nonzero Constant
  • Nonlinear Pulse Propagation

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Rund, H. (1976). Variational problems and Bäcklund transformations associated with the sine-gordon and Korteweg-deVries equations and their extensions. In: Miura, R.M. (eds) Bäcklund Transformations, the Inverse Scattering Method, Solitons, and Their Applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 515. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0081169

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