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Real and bounded elliptic solutions suitable for applying the Khare-Sukhatme superposition procedure are presented and used to generate superposition solutions of the generalized modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation (gmKPE) and the nonlinear cubic-quintic Schrödinger equation (NLCQSE)
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Schürmann, H.W., Serov, V.S. & Nickel, J. Superposition in Nonlinear Wave and Evolution Equations. Int J Theor Phys 45, 1057–1073 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-006-9100-9
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