Bäcklund transformations, the inverse scattering method, solitons, and their applications : proceedings of the NSF research workshop on contact transformations, held in Nashville, Tennessee 1974 / / edited by Robert M. Miura

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466489103316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany : , : Springer, , [1976]
• ISBN: 3-540-38220-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1976.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VIII, 295 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 515
• Disciplina: 515.43
• Soggetti: Contact transformations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Proceedings of the NSF Research Workshop on Contact Transformations, Held in Nashville, Tennessee, 1974.