Why Nonsmooth?

Mike Jeffrey

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55642-0_18

Why Nonsmooth?

Mike Jeffrey

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Abstract

Perhaps we should wrap up this volume by asking why nonsmooth dynamics is the subject of a three month Intensive Research Program at the CRM (February to April 2016), why it was the subject of more than 2000 papers published in 2015 (and only 700 in the year 2000; data from Thomson Reuters Web of Science), and why it is a growing presence at international conferences involving mathematics and its applications. We briefly survey here why discontinuity is not only important in modeling real-world systems, but is also a fundamental property of many nonlinear systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts Spring 2016
Subtitle of host publication	Nonsmooth Dynamics
Publisher	Birkhäuser Basel
Pages	101-105
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319556420
ISBN (Print)	9783319556413
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55642-0_18
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2017

Publication series

Name	Trends in Mathematics
Publisher	Birkhäuser Basel
Volume	8
ISSN (Print)	2297-0215

Keywords

Smooth System
Smooth Dynamical System
Switching Layer
Nonsmooth Dynamic
Smooth Dynamic

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