Integrability
Seiten
2010
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1. Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-09990-8 (ISBN)
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-09990-8 (ISBN)
Integrable systems are used for a range of applications in modern theoretical and mathematical physics. This text presents various views on the definition of integrable systems and develops methods and tests for integrability based on those definitions.
The principal aim of the book is to give a comprehensive account of the variety of approaches to such an important and complex concept as Integrability. Dev- oping mathematical models, physicists often raise the following questions: whether the model obtained is integrable or close in some sense to an integrable one and whether it can be studied in depth analytically. In this book we have tried to c- ate a mathematical framework to address these issues, and we give descriptions of methods and review results. In the Introduction we give a historical account of the birth and development of the theory of integrable equations, focusing on the main issue of the book - the concept of integrability itself. A universal de nition of Integrability is proving to be elusive despite more than 40 years of its development. Often such notions as "- act solvability" or "regular behaviour" of solutions are associated with integrable systems. Unfortunately these notions do not lead to any rigorous mathematical d- inition. A constructive approach could be based upon the study of hidden and rich algebraic or analytic structures associated with integrable equations. The requi- ment of existence of elements of these structures could, in principle, be taken as a de nition for integrability. It is astonishing that the nal result is not sensitive to the choice of the structure taken; eventually we arrive at the same pattern of eq- tions.
The principal aim of the book is to give a comprehensive account of the variety of approaches to such an important and complex concept as Integrability. Dev- oping mathematical models, physicists often raise the following questions: whether the model obtained is integrable or close in some sense to an integrable one and whether it can be studied in depth analytically. In this book we have tried to c- ate a mathematical framework to address these issues, and we give descriptions of methods and review results. In the Introduction we give a historical account of the birth and development of the theory of integrable equations, focusing on the main issue of the book - the concept of integrability itself. A universal de nition of Integrability is proving to be elusive despite more than 40 years of its development. Often such notions as "- act solvability" or "regular behaviour" of solutions are associated with integrable systems. Unfortunately these notions do not lead to any rigorous mathematical d- inition. A constructive approach could be based upon the study of hidden and rich algebraic or analytic structures associated with integrable equations. The requi- ment of existence of elements of these structures could, in principle, be taken as a de nition for integrability. It is astonishing that the nal result is not sensitive to the choice of the structure taken; eventually we arrive at the same pattern of eq- tions.
Symmetries of Differential Equations and the Problem of Integrability.- Number Theory and the Symmetry Classification of Integrable Systems.- Four Lectures: Discretization and Integrability. Discrete Spectral Symmetries.- Symmetries of Spectral Problems.- Normal Form and Solitons.- Multiscale Expansion and Integrability of Dispersive Wave Equations.- Painlevé Tests, Singularity Structure and Integrability.- Hirota's Bilinear Method and Its Connection with Integrability.- Integrability of the Quantum XXZ Hamiltonian.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.10.2010 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 339 p. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 533 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Strömungsmechanik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik | |
| Schlagworte | conservation laws • differential equation • fluid- and aerodynamics • Integrable Systems • Mathematical Physics • Painleve property • Solitons • Symmetries • wave equation |
| ISBN-10 | 3-642-09990-4 / 3642099904 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-642-09990-8 / 9783642099908 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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