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Solitons. Theory and application

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Paper based on a series of lectures given at the National Colloquium on « Interdisciplinary Aspects of Modern Physics » organized by the Post-Graduate School on Solid State Physics of the Parma University in May 1976.

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Cercignani, C. Solitons. Theory and application. Riv. Nuovo Cim. 7, 429–469 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02747772

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