Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform

Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform
ISBN-10
089871477X
ISBN-13
9780898714777
Category
Mathematics
Pages
425
Language
English
Published
2006-05-15
Publisher
SIAM
Authors
Mark J. Ablowitz, Harvey Segur

Description

A study, by two of the major contributors to the theory, of the inverse scattering transform and its application to problems of nonlinear dispersive waves that arise in fluid dynamics, plasma physics, nonlinear optics, particle physics, crystal lattice theory, nonlinear circuit theory and other areas. A soliton is a localised pulse-like nonlinear wave that possesses remarkable stability properties. Typically, problems that admit soliton solutions are in the form of evolution equations that describe how some variable or set of variables evolve in time from a given state. The equations may take a variety of forms, for example, PDEs, differential difference equations, partial difference equations, and integrodifferential equations, as well as coupled ODEs of finite order. What is surprising is that, although these problems are nonlinear, the general solution that evolves from almost arbitrary initial data may be obtained without approximation.

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