The direct method in soliton theory

by Claire Gilson, Atsushi Nagai, Jon Nimmo et al.

2004 200 pages eng

The bilinear, or Hirota's direct, method was invented in the early 1970s as an elementary means of constructing soliton solutions that avoided the use of the heavy machinery of the inverse scattering transform and was successfully used to construct the multisoliton solutions of many new equations. I…