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EXISTENCE OF SOLITARY WAVES TO A GENERALIZED KADOMTSEV-PETVIASHVILI EQUATION

  • LIANG Zhan-Ping ,
  • SU Jia-Bao
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  • 1.School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China; 2.School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China

Received date: 2010-09-28

  Revised date: 2011-03-09

  Online published: 2012-05-20

Supported by

Z. Liang was supported by NSFC (11071149) and SNSF (2010011001-1); J. Su was supported by NSFC11171204, NSFC10831005, KZ201010028027, and PHR201106118.

Abstract

In this article, we study the existence of nontrivial solitary waves of a gener-alized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation via variational methods.

Cite this article

LIANG Zhan-Ping , SU Jia-Bao . EXISTENCE OF SOLITARY WAVES TO A GENERALIZED KADOMTSEV-PETVIASHVILI EQUATION[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2012 , 32(3) : 1149 -1156 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(12)60087-3

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