The legacy of the inverse scattering transform in applied mathematics : proceedings of an AMS-IMS-SIAM joint summer research conference on the legacy of inverse scattering transform in nonlinear wave propagation, June 17-21, 2001, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA /

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Imprint:Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2002.
Description:vi, 338 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 301
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 301.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4788164
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Other authors / contributors:Bona, J. L.
Choudhury, Roy, 1956-
Kaup, David, 1939-
ISBN:0821831615 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • The legacy of the IST
  • Application of inverse scattering method to problems of differential geometry
  • Algebraic and analytic aspects of soliton type equations
  • Differential forms, spectral theory, and boundary value problems
  • Chaos in partial differential equations
  • Multi-soliton complexes
  • A unified approach to integrable systems via Painleve analysis
  • Asymptotic stability of solitary waves for nonlinear Schrodinger equations
  • Finite-time blow-up in the additive supercritical stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equations: The real noise case
  • Method of symmetry transforms for ideal magnetohydrodynamics equilibrium equations
  • The $p$-system I: The Riemann problem
  • Statistical analysis of collision-induced timing shifts in a wavelength-division-multiplexed optical soliton-transmission system
  • Cuspons and peakons vis-a-vis regular solitons and collapse in a three-wave system
  • First integrals and gradient flow for a generalized Darboux-Halphen system
  • Blow-ups of the Toda lattices and their intersections with the Bruhat cells
  • Superposition principle for oscillatory solutions of integrable systems
  • Scattering at truncated solitons and inverse scattering on the semiline