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Two Fundamental Representations of Localized Pulse Solutions to the Scalar Wave Equation
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Ioannis Besieris, M. Abdel-Rahman, Amr Shaarawi, and A. Chatzipetros, "Two Fundamental Representations of Localized Pulse Solutions to the Scalar Wave Equation," , Vol. 19, 1-48, 1998.
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