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Solitons, Instantons, and Twistors (Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics),New
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Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behavior and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well behaved solutions known as solitons and instantons. These solutions play important roles in pure and applied mathematics as well as in theoretical physics where they describe configurations topologically different from vacuum. While integrable equations in lower spacetime dimensions can be solved using the inverse scattering transform, the higherdimensional examples of antiselfdual YangMills and Einstein equations require twistor theory. Both techniques rely on an ability to represent nonlinear equations as compatibility conditions for overdetermined systems of linear differential equations.The book provides a selfcontained and accessible introduction to the subject. It starts with an introduction to integrability of ordinary and partial differential equations. Subsequent chapters explore symmetry analysis, gauge theory, gravitational instantons, twistor transforms, and antiselfduality equations. The three appendices cover basic differential geometry, complex manifold theory, and the exterior differential system.
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