soliton
Urs Schreiber
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The term soliton originates as an abbreviation of “solitary wave”, in the tradition of naming fields and particles ending on “-on”.
A soliton solution of a nonlinear wave equation is a solution whose large amplitude part is localized in space and is asymptotically stable in time. This.