Various Aspects of Whitham Times
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We sketch some of the different roles played by Whitham times in connection with averaging, adiabatic invariants, soliton theory, Hamiltonian structures, topological field theory (TFT), Seiberg-Witten (SW) theory, isomonodromy problems, Hitchin systems, WDVV and PicardFuchs equations, renormalization, soft supersymmetry breaking, etc.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999