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The sine-Gordon Model and its Applications

Jesús Cuevas-Maraver, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, and Floyd Williams, editors
Publisher: 
Springer
Publication Date: 
2014
Number of Pages: 
263
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Nonlinear Systems and Complexity
Price: 
109.00
ISBN: 
9783319067216
Category: 
Proceedings
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The sine-Gordon Model: General Background, Physical Motivations, Inverse Scattering, and Solitons.-  Sine-Gordon Equation: From Discrete to Continuum.- Soliton Collisions.- The Traveling Kink Problem: Radiation Phenomena, Resonances, Pinning and How to Avoid It.- Experimental Results for the sine-Gordon Equation in Arrays of Coupled Torsion Pendula.- Soliton Ratchets in sine-Gordon-like Equations.- The sine-Gordon Equation in Josephson-Junction Arrays.- Some Selected Thoughts Old and New on Soliton - Black Hole Connections in 2d Dilaton Gravity.- Dressing with Control: Using Integrability to Generate Desired Solutions to Einstein's Equations.- A Planar Skyrme-like Model.