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Solitons in mathematics and physics

By Alan C. Newell

Book information

Publisher
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Year
1987
ISBN
9780898711967, 0898711967
LCC
QA927 .N46 1985
Open Library ID
OL2874217M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22562341 bytes)
Series
CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics 48
Pages
263\263
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

The soliton is a dramatic concept in nonlinear science. What makes this book unique in the treatment of this subject is its focus on the properties that make the soliton physically ubiquitous and the soliton equation mathematically miraculous. Here, on the classical level, is the entity field theorists have been postulating for years: a local traveling wave pulse; a lump-like coherent structure; the solution of a field equation with remarkable stability and particle-like properties. It is a fundamental mode of propagation in gravity- driven surface and internal waves; in atmospheric waves; in ion acoustic and Langmuir waves in plasmas; in some laser waves in nonlinear media; and in many biologic contexts, such as alpha- helix proteins.

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