Localized Excitations in Nonlinear Complex Systems Current State of

The study of nonlinear localized excitations is a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science, as well as engineering, due to their importance in understanding and predicting phenomena arising in nonlinear and complex systems, but al

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Ricardo Carretero-González Jesús Cuevas-Maraver Dimitris Frantzeskakis · Nikos Karachalios Panayotis Kevrekidis Faustino Palmero-Acebedo Editors

Localized Excitations in Nonlinear Complex Systems Current State of the Art and Future Perspectives

Nonlinear Systems and Complexity Series Editor Albert C. J. Luo Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, IL, USA

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Ricardo Carretero-González • Jesús Cuevas-Maraver Dimitri Frantzeskakis • Nikos Karachalios Panayotis Kevrekidis • Faustino Palmero-Acebedo Editors

Localized Excitations in Nonlinear Complex Systems Current State of the Art and Future Perspectives

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Editors Ricardo Carretero-González Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics San Diego State University California San Diego, USA

Jesús Cuevas-Maraver Dept. de Física Aplicada I Escuela Politécnica Superior University of Sevilla Sevilla, Spain

Dimitri Frantzeskakis Dept. of Physics University of Athens Athens, Greece

Nikos Karachalios Dept. of Mathematics University of the Aegean Samos, Greece

Panayotis Kevrekidis Mathematics and Statistics University of Massachusetts Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Faustino Palmero-Acebedo Dept. de Física Aplicada I E.T.S.I. Informática University of Sevilla Sevilla, Spain

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