In this volume nonlinear systems related to integrable systems are studied. Lectures cover such topics as the application of integrable systems to the description of natural phenomena, the elaboration of perturbation theories, and the statistical mechanics of ensembles of objects obeying integrable equations. The more physical lectures center largely around the three paradigmatic equations: Korteweg de Vries, Sine-Gordon and Nonlinear Schrodinger, especially the latter. These have long been of great mathematical interest, and also exhibit a "universality" which places them among the most...
In this volume nonlinear systems related to integrable systems are studied. Lectures cover such topics as the application of integrable systems to the...