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Solitons Around Us: Integrable, Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems

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In recent years, the notion of solitons has been extended to various systems which are not necessarily integrable. We extend the notion of solitons and include a wider range of systems in our treatment. These include dissipative systems, Hamiltonian systems and a particular case of them, viz. integrable systems. We use the broad definition of solitons and give some examples to support this claim of ubiquity.

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Akhmediev, N.N., Ankiewicz, A. (2002). Solitons Around Us: Integrable, Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems. In: Porsezian, K., Kuriakose, V.C. (eds) Optical Solitons. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36141-3_5

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