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Book Information:
Authors: B. Grébert and T. Kappeler
Title: The defocusing NLS equation and its normal form
Additional book information: EMS Series of Lectures in Mathematics, European Mathematical Society (EMS), Zürich, 2014, x+166 pp., ISBN 978-3-03719-131-6, US$38.00
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Review Information:
Reviewer: Dario Bambusi
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Milano Milano, Italy
Email: dario.bambusi\string @unimi.it
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (2016), 337-342
MSC (2010): Primary 35Q55, 37K10, 37K55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1522
Published electronically: October 8, 2015
Review copyright: © Copyright 2015 American Mathematical Society