Mathematics of Nonlinear Science: Proceedings of an AMS Special Session Held January 11-14, 1989

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Melvyn Stuart Berger
American Mathematical Soc., 1990 - Mathematics - 153 pages
Contains the proceedings of an AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of Nonlinear Science, held in Phoenix in January 1989. The area of research encompasses a large and rapidly growing set of ideas concerning the relationship of mathematics to science, in which the fundamental laws of nature are extended beyond common sense into new areas where the dual aspects of order and chaos abound.
 

Contents

Multiple steady states in tubular chemical reactors
1
Two new approaches to large amplitude quasiperiodic motions of certain nonlinear Hamiltonian systems
11
Vortices for the GinzburgLandau equationsthe nonsymmetric case in bounded domain
19
Nonlinear stability and bifurcation in Hamiltonian systems with symmetry
33
Nonlinear resonance in inhomogeneous systems of conservation laws
63
Bifurcation and stability in rotating plane CouettePoiseuille flow
79
Bifurcations of central configurations in the N body problem
93
Leapfrogging of vortex filaments in an ideal fluid
103
Calculation of sharp shocks using Sobolev gradients
111
Monodromy preserving deformation of the Dirac operator acting on the hyperbolic plane
119
Bifurcation from equilibria for certain infinitedimensional dynamical systems
133
On dynamics of discrete and continuous σmodels chiral fields with values in Riemannian manifolds
139
Direct study for some nonlinear elliptic control problems
145
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