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We tell the story of the happy life together of induced bundles, invariant wave equations, and scattering transformations, in the universal cosmos. Also how the first two of these are coming to live together on a more equal footing.

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Segal, I.E. (1987). Induced Bundles and Nonlinear Wave Equations. In: Moore, C.C. (eds) Group Representations, Ergodic Theory, Operator Algebras, and Mathematical Physics. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol 6. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4722-7_8

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