Bäcklund Transformations, the Inverse Scattering Method, Solitons, and Their Applications : NSF Research Workshop on Contact Transformations / edited by Robert M. Miura.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miura, Robert M., 1938- editor.

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Series:

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 515.

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 515

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global analysis (Mathematics).

Analysis.

Local Subjects:

Analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 295 pages).

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Other Title:

Proceedings of the NSF Research Workshop on Contact Transformations, Held in Nashville, Tennessee, 1974

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1976.

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Contents:

Experiments on solitary waves

Stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering and the inverse method

Direct method of finding exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations

Bäcklund transformations at the turn of the century

The application of Bäcklund transforms to physical problems

On applications of generalized Bäcklund transformations to continuum mechanics

Some old and new techniques for the practical use of exterior differential forms

Bäcklund transformation of potentials of the Korteweg-deVries equation and the interaction of solitons with cnoidal waves

Pseudopotentials and their applications

Variational problems and Bäcklund transformations associated with the sine-gordon and Korteweg-deVries equations and their extensions

The interrelation between Bäcklund transformations and the inverse scattering transform

Relation between Bäcklund transformations and inverse scattering problems

Some comments on Bäcklund transformations, canonical transformations, and the inverse scattering method.

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ISBN:

9783540382201

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