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Outline of a theory of the KdV equation

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Lax, P.D. (1996). Outline of a theory of the KdV equation. In: Ruggeri, T. (eds) Recent Mathematical Methods in Nonlinear Wave Propagation. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1640. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0093707

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