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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818335303321

Autore

Hirota Ryōgo <1932->

Titolo

The direct method in soliton theory / / Ryogo Hirota ; translated from Japanese and edited by Atsushi Nagai, Jon Nimmo, and Claire Gilson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-15013-2

1-280-54012-5

9786610540129

0-511-21484-7

0-511-21663-7

0-511-21126-0

0-511-31541-4

0-511-54304-2

0-511-21303-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge tracts in mathematics ; ; 155

Disciplina

530.12/4

Soggetti

Solitons

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Bilinearization of soliton equations -- 2. Determinants and pfaffians -- 3. Structure of soliton equations -- 4. Backlund transformations -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The bilinear, or Hirota's direct, method was invented in the early 1970s as an elementary means of constructing soliton solutions that avoided the use of the heavy machinery of the inverse scattering transform and was successfully used to construct the multisoliton solutions of many new equations. In the 1980s the deeper significance of the tools used in this method - Hirota derivatives and the bilinear form - came to be understood as  a key ingredient in Sato's theory and the connections with affine Lie algebras. The main part of this book concerns the more modern version of the method in which solutions are expressed in the form of determinants and pfaffians. While maintaining the original



philosophy of using relatively simple mathematics, it has, nevertheless, been influenced by the deeper understanding that came out of the work of the Kyoto school. The book will be essential for all those working in soliton theory.