On the collision of two solitons for the generalized KdV equation in the nonintegrable case

Martel, Yvan; Merle, Frank

Séminaire Équations aux dérivées partielles (Polytechnique) dit aussi "Séminaire Goulaouic-Schwartz" (2007-2008), Exposé no. 12, 10 p.

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