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Fibich, Gadi,author

1st ed. 2015.

1 online resource (XXXI, 862 pages 202 illustrations, 100 illustrations in color.)

Applied Mathematical Sciences

Derivation of the NLS -- Linear propagation -- Early self-focusing research -- NLS models -- Existence of NLS solutions -- Solitary waves -- Variance identity -- Symmetries and the lens transformation -- Stability of solitary waves -- The explicit critical singular peak-type solution -- The explicit critical singular ring-type solution -- The explicit supercritical singular peak-type solution -- Blowup rate, blowup profile, and power concentration -- The peak-type blowup profile -- Vortex solutions -- NLS on a bounded domain -- Derivation of reduced equations -- Loglog law and adiabatic collapse -- Singular H1 ring-type solutions -- Singular H1 vortex solutions -- Singular H1 peak-type solutions -- Singular standing-ring solutions -- Singular shrinking-ring solutions -- Critical and threshold powers for collapse -- Multiple filamentation -- Nonlinear Geometrical Optics (NGO) method -- Location of singularity -- Computation of solitary waves -- Numerical methods for the NLS -- Effects of spatial discretization -- Modulation theory -- Cubic-quintic and saturated nonlinearities -- Linear and nonlinear damping -- Nonparaxiality and backscattering (nonlinear Helmholtz equation) -- Ultrashort pulses -- Normal and anomalous dispersion -- NGO method for ultrashort pulses with anomalous dispersion -- Continuations beyond the singularity -- Loss of phase and chaotic interactions