TitleBรคcklund Transformations, the Inverse Scattering Method, Solitons, and Their Applications [electronic resource] : NSF Research Workshop on Contact Transformations / edited by Robert M. Miura
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1976
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0081158
Descript VIII, 295 p. online resource

CONTENT

Experiments on solitary waves -- Stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering and the inverse method -- Direct method of finding exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations -- Bรคcklund transformations at the turn of the century -- The application of Bรคcklund transforms to physical problems -- On applications of generalized Bรคcklund transformations to continuum mechanics -- Some old and new techniques for the practical use of exterior differential forms -- Bรคcklund transformation of potentials of the Korteweg-deVries equation and the interaction of solitons with cnoidal waves -- Pseudopotentials and their applications -- Variational problems and Bรคcklund transformations associated with the sine-gordon and Korteweg-deVries equations and their extensions -- The interrelation between Bรคcklund transformations and the inverse scattering transform -- Relation between Bรคcklund transformations and inverse scattering problems -- Some comments on Bรคcklund transformations, canonical transformations, and the inverse scattering method


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Mathematical analysis
  3. Analysis (Mathematics)
  4. Mathematics
  5. Analysis