Modulational instability and formation of a nonlinear oscillatory structure in a "focusing" medium
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- RAS - Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation
- RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
- RAS - United Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth
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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 357-361 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physics Letters A |
| Volume | 177 |
| Issue number | 4-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 21 Jun 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Publication type | Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review |
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Abstract
The self-similar decay of the uniform envelope of an unstable wave described by the "focusing" nonlinear Schrödinger equation is studied. The exact analytic solution of the appropriate elliptic Whitham averaged system is obtained.