 | Proceedings of the Conference on Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, July 95 | |
Solitons and the Korteweg-de Vries Equation: integrable systems 1834-1995
R.K. Bullough ¹, P.J. Caudrey
¹Department of Mathematics, UMIST,
PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK
Abstract
We show in one A3 sheet and/or more substantially how the soliton,
first reported by J.S. Russell in August 1834, has come to occupy,
in 1995, a central position in the theory of 2-dimensional quantum
gravity.
Conference paper.
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