Basic Methods of Soliton Theory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810226435)

In the 25 years of its existence Soliton Theory has drastically expanded our understanding of "integrability" and contributed a lot to the reunification of Mathematics and Physics in the range from deep algebraic geometry and modern representation theory to quantum field theory and optical transmission lines.The book is a systematic introduction to the Soliton Theory with an emphasis on its background and algebraic aspects. It is the first one devoted to the general matrix soliton equations, which are of great importance for the foundations and the applications.Differential algebra (local conservation laws, Bäcklund-Darboux transforms), algebraic geometry (theta and Baker functions), and the inverse scattering method (Riemann-Hilbert problem) with well-grounded preliminaries are applied to various equations including principal chiral fields, Heisenberg magnets, Sin-Gordon, and Nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

Author: Ivan V. Cherednik
ISBN-10: 9810226438
ISBN-13: 9789810226435
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1996
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.08w x 0.83d