Trends in Soliton Research Book

Since their discovery a mere thirty years ago, solitons have been invoked to explain such diverse phenomena as: The long-lived 'giant red spot' in the highly turbulent Jovian atmosphere; the famous Fermi-Pasta-Ulam paradox wherein a nonlinearly coupled lattice of particles does not display the "expected" equipartition of energy among available modes; ion-acoustic waves in plasma; energy storage and transfer in proteins via the Davydov soliton; the propagation of short laser pulses in optical fibers over long distances with negligible shape change. This new volume presents important research from around the globe.