The Versatile Soliton

• Main Author: Filippov, Alexandre T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Birkhäuser Boston, 2010.
• Series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Applications of Mathematics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

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 the beginning of the last century to modern times...