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Solitons in physics, mathematics, and nonlinear optics /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Olver, Peter J., Sattinger, David H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer-Verlag, [1990]
Series:IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications ; v. 25.
Subjects:
Solitons > Congresses.
Nonlinear optics > Congresses.
Evolution equations, Nonlinear > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Nonlinear evolution equations, inverse scattering, and cellular automata / Mark J. Ablowitz
  • Painlevé equations and the inverse scattering and inverse monodromy transforms / Mark J. Ablowitz
  • Chaotic behavior in nonlinear polarization dynamics / D. David, D.D. Holm, and M.V. Tratnik
  • New manifestations of solitons / A.S. Fokas
  • A unified approach to recursion operators / A.S. Fokas and P.M. Santini
  • Isospectral flows / Allan P. Fordy - - Integrable nonlinear evolution equations in the description of waves in the shallow-water long-wave approximation / Decio Levi
  • Transient solitons in stimulated Raman scattering / Curtis R. Menyuk
  • Monodromy preserving deformation of linear ordinary and partial differential equations / Craig A. Tracy
  • Bäcklund transformations and the Painlevé property / John Weiss
  • Symmetry groups of multidimensional integrable nonlinear systems / P. Winternitz.