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Since more than three centuries Kepler's equation continues to represents an important benchmark for testing new computational techniques. In the present paper, the classical Kapteyn series solution of Kepler's equation originally conceived…
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An inverse-free dynamical system is proposed to solve the generalized absolute value equation (GAVE) with a fixed time convergence, where the time of convergence is finite and is uniformly bounded for all initial points. Moreover, an…
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We present a new and relatively elementary method for studying the solution of the initial-value problem for dispersive linear and integrable equations in the large-$t$ limit, based on a generalization of steepest descent techniques for…
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