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When soliton theory, based on water waves, plasmas, fiber optics etc., was developing in the 1960-1970 era it seemed that perhaps KdV (and a few other equations) were really rather special in the set of all interesting partial differential equations. As it turns out, although integrable systems are...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carroll, Robert W., 1930-2012
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : North-Holland ; Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1991.
Colección:North-Holland mathematics studies ; 167.
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Sumario:When soliton theory, based on water waves, plasmas, fiber optics etc., was developing in the 1960-1970 era it seemed that perhaps KdV (and a few other equations) were really rather special in the set of all interesting partial differential equations. As it turns out, although integrable systems are still special, the mathematical interaction of integrable systems theory with virtually all branches of mathematics (and with many currently developing areas of theoretical physics) illustrates the importance of this area. This book concentrates on developing the theme of the tau function. KdV and KP equations are treated extensively, with material on NLS and AKNS systems, and in following the tau function theme one is led to conformal field theory, strings, and other topics in physics. The extensive list of references contains about 1000 entries.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 428 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-419) and index.
ISBN:9780444888693
0444888691
9780080872780
0080872786
1281789445
9781281789440
9786611789442
6611789448