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Group Theory for the Domino Effect

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Nonlinear Waves in Active Media

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The domino effect is a solitary wave of reaction in a periodic, dissipative, two state system. A wave of toppling dominoes has a natural speed of propagation where the rates of reaction and dissipation are equal. Due to nonlinear dissipation within the toppling group, the speed of propagation for the reaction asymptotically approaches the natural speed.

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  1. University Engineering Department, Cambridge, CB21PZ, UK

    W. J. Stronge

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  1. Institute of Cybernetics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Akadeemia tee 21, SU-200108, Tallinn, USSR

    Professor Jüri Engelbrecht

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Stronge, W.J. (1989). Group Theory for the Domino Effect. In: Engelbrecht, P.J. (eds) Nonlinear Waves in Active Media. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74789-2_10

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