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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), Z\"urich, 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
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1522
    Published electronically: October 8, 2015
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2015 American Mathematical Society