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Solitary wave

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In mathematics and physics, a solitary wave can refer to

  • The solitary wave (water waves) or wave of translation, as observed by John Scott Russell in 1834, the prototype for a soliton.
  • A soliton, a generalization of the wave of translation to general systems of partial differential equations
  • A topological defect, a generalization of the idea of a soliton to any system which is stable against decay due to homotopy theory
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