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Solitons in mathematics and physics

By Newell A.C.

Book information

Publisher
SIAM
Year
1985
ISBN
0-89871-196-7
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3493878 bytes)
Series
CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics
Pages
263\263
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2013-12-29 19:00:00

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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