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Original Articles

On complex-valued solutions to a 2D Eikonal equation. Part three: analysis of a Bäcklund transformation

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Pages 249-276 | Received 26 Jul 2004, Accepted 11 Oct 2004, Published online: 25 Jan 2007

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