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Spontaneous symmetry breaking and ghost states supported by the fractional \(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetric saturable nonlinear Schrödinger equation. (English) Zbl 07880548


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37-XX Dynamical systems and ergodic theory
34-XX Ordinary differential equations
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