Whitham's Method and Dubrovin-Novikov Bracket in Single-Phase and Multiphase Cases

In this paper we examine in detail the procedure of averaging of the local field-theoretic Poisson brackets proposed by B.A. Dubrovin and S.P. Novikov for the method of Whitham. The main attention is paid to the questions of justification and the conditions of applicability of the Dubrovin-Novikov p...

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Main Author: Andrei Ya. Maltsev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2012-12-01
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.103