A Dynamical Perspective on the ɸ4 Model : Past, Present and Future (Nonlinear Systems and Complexity)

Kevrekidis, Panayotis G. (EDT)/ Cuevas-Maraver, Jesús (EDT)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2019/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 311 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030118389

Full Description

This book presents a careful selection of the most important developments of the \phi^4 model, offering a judicious summary of this model with a view to future prospects and the challenges ahead. 

Over the past four decades, the \phi^4 model has been the basis for a broad array of developments in the physics and mathematics of nonlinear waves. From kinks to breathers, from continuum media to discrete lattices, from collisions of solitary waves to spectral properties, and from deterministic to stochastic models of \phi^4 (and \phi^6, \phi^8, \phi^12 variants more recently), this dynamical model has served as an excellent test bed for formulating and testing the ideas of nonlinear science and solitary waves.

Contents

Historical Perspectives of \phi^4 Model.- Some Recent Developments on Kink Collisions.- Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Aspects of \phi^4 Models.- Discrete Variants of \phi^4 Model.- Discrete Breathers in \phi^4 and Related Models.- \phi^4 Breathers: History and Recent Developments.- Decay of Bions in \phi^4 Models.- \phi^4 Model with a Potential.- \phi^4 Model in Higher Dimensions.- Beyond the \phi^4 Model: \phi^6, \phi^8, etc.