Recent Developments in Integrable Systems and Riemann--Hilbert Problems

Kenneth T-r McLaughlin & Xin Zhou

Language: English

Published: Feb 15, 2003

Description:

This volume is a collection of papers presented at a special session on integrable systems and Riemann-Hilbert problems. The goal of the meeting was to foster new research by bringing together experts from different areas. Their contributions to the volume provide a useful portrait of the breadth and depth of integrable systems.

Topics covered include discrete Painlevé equations, integrable nonlinear partial differential equations, random matrix theory, Bose-Einstein condensation, spectral and inverse spectral theory, and last passage percolation models. In most of these articles, the Riemann-Hilbert problem approach plays a central role, which is powerful both analytically and algebraically.

The book is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in integrable systems and its applications.