Solitons, instantons, and twistors /:

Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behaviour and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well behaved solutions known as solitons and instantons. These solutions play important roles in...

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Main Author: Dunajski, Maciej
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford mathematics.
Oxford graduate texts in mathematics ; 19.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behaviour and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well behaved solutions known as solitons and instantons. These solutions play important roles in pure and applied mathematics as well as in theoretical physics where they describe configurations topologically different from vacuum. While integrable equations in lower space-timedimensions can be solved using the inverse scattering transform, the higher-dimensional examples of anti-self-dual Yan.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191574108
0191574104

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