An extension of the steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems: The small dispersion limit of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation

DOI10.1073/pnas.95.2.450zbMath0894.35097OpenAlexW2107866365WikidataQ35737795 ScholiaQ35737795MaRDI QIDQ4380449

Stephanos Venakides, Xin Zhou, Percy A. Deift

Publication date: 23 April 1998

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.2.450

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmerror estimatesoscillationsphase shiftshyperelliptic solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15)

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