1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466489103316

Titolo

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

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696433703321

Autore

Melvin Valerie C

Titolo

Information technology [[electronic resource] ] : VA has taken important steps to centralize control of its resources, but effectiveness depends on additional planned actions : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs / / statement of Valerie C. Melvin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2008]

Descrizione fisica

13 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-08-449 T

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 18, 2008).

"For release ... February 13, 2008."

Paper version available from: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.