The Versatile Soliton
The soliton, a solitary wave impulse preserving its shape and strikingly similar to a particle, is one of the most fascinating and beautiful phenomena in the physics of nonlinear waves. In this classic book, the concept of the soliton is traced from
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The Versatile Soliton
Alexandre T. Filippov
Reprint of the 2000 Edition Birkh¨auser Boston • Basel • Berlin
Alexandre T. Filippov Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Joliot Curie 6 RU-141980 Dubna Russia
ISBN 978-0-8176-4973-9 e-ISBN 978-0-8176-4974-6 DOI 10.1007/978-0-8176-4974-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010927097 Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 00Axx, 00A79, 35Q51, 76D33 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Birkhäuser is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.birkhauser.com)
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