P. G. Drazin, R. S. Johnson

Solitons

An Introduction
Herausgeber: Crighton, D. G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook is an introduction to the theory of solitons in the physical sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521336550
• ISBN-10: 0521336554
• Artikelnr.: 21586892

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Kortewag-de Vries equation
2. Elementary solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation
3. The scattering and inverse scattering problems
4. The initial-value problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation
5. Further properties of the Korteweg-de Vries equation
6. More general inverse methods
7. The Painlevé property, perturbations and numerical methods
8. Epilogue
Answers and hints
Bibliography and author index
Motion picture index
Subject index.