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Solitons and Nonlinear Wave Equations (also offered as MATH 5P09 ) Introduction to solitons: Linear and nonlinear travelling waves. Nonlinear evolution equations (Korteweg de Vries, nonlinear Schrodinger, sine-Gordon). Soliton solutions and their interaction properties. Lax pairs, inverse scattering, zero-curvature equations and Backlund transformations, Hamiltonian structures, conservation laws. Note: taught in conjunction with PHYS 4P09. *
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- Note: taught in conjunction with PHYS 4P09. *
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Solitons and Nonlinear Wave Equations (also offered as MATH 5P09 ) Introduction to solitons: Linear and nonlinear travelling waves. Nonlinear evolution equations (Korteweg de Vries, nonlinear Schrodinger, sine-Gordon). Soliton solutions and their interaction properties. Lax pairs, inverse scattering, zero-curvature equations and Backlund transformations, Hamiltonian structures, conservation laws. Note: taught in conjunction with PHYS 4P09. *
- Note: taught in conjunction with PHYS 4P09. *
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