Overview

This volume covers a wide range of topics in nonlinear science including those, such as solitons and chaos, that share common mathematical notions and investigation techniques. Contributions represent the current status of important nonlinear theories in various areas of applied mathematics and mathematical physics. The book aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the new areas of nonlinear science and demonstrate a tremendous range of applications. It should be of interest to applied mathematicians, mathematical physicists and engineers, and experts in the field of nonlinear phenomena.

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Author:   R. Sahadevan ,  M. Lakshmanan
Publisher:   Narosa Publishing House
Imprint:   Narosa Publishing House
Weight:   0.731kg
ISBN:  

9788173194566

ISBN 10:   8173194564
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   13 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface / Nonlinear Systems: General: Nonlinear dynamics: From theory to technology / Soliton Systems and Integrability: Geometry of Dirac structures, integrability and Lax-Lenard principle / Hirota derivatives, vertex operators and Plucker coordinates / Backlund transformations, quantum inverse problem and Q-operator / Completely integrable soliton models in resonant and nonresonant optical fibres / Backlund transformation for restricted flows / Oblique and parallel propagation of electromagnetic soliton in ferromagnetic medium / Nonlinear Differential and Difference Equations: Solutions : Nonconservative products in quasilinear hyperbolic systems / A new reduction of the nonplanar Burgers equation and exact analysis of the reduced ordinary differential equation / Nonlocal Cauchy problem for nonlinear differential equations in Banach spaces / Oscillation of solutions of forced nonlinear neutral difference equations of higher order / Existence of mild solutions of nonlinear functional integro - differential equations of neutral type / Oscillation of solutions of forced nonlinear second order difference equations/ Discrete Nonlinear Systems: Integrability: An invariant norm of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems / A panorama of the special solutions of the Painleve equations / Discrete nonlinear systems: Some recent developments / A Nevanlinna theory approach to the integrability of discrete systems / Classical and Quantum Chaos: Controlling chaos with threshold mechanisms / Diffusion in periodically driven damped and undamped pendulum / Scaling indices and dynamical states of 1-d discrete systems / Intermittency and multifractality in iterated function systems / Quantum theory of the chaotic ionization of highly excited helium atoms / List of contributors

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