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Science 3 August 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4405, pp. 493 - 495
DOI: 10.1126/science.205.4405.493
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Solitons in a Reaction-Diffusion System

HENRY C. TUCKWELL 1

1 Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1W5

Solitary waves in reaction-diffusion systems usually annihilate on collision. A nonlinear system of reaction-diffusion equations has been constructed which has solitons: solitary waves whose interaction in a collision results in the emergence of two solitary waves identical to the colliding waves.

Submitted on April 30, 1979

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