https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2010-01234-y
Regular article
Rogue waves – towards a unifying concept?: Discussions and debates
1 L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 2 Kosygin Street, 119334 Moscow, Russia
2 Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
3 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Hicks Building, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK
4 Département d’Optique P.M. Duffieux, Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR 6174 CNRS-Université de Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon, France
5 Loughborough University, UK
6 Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
7 Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Università di Torino, via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy
8 IRPHE, 49 rue F. Joliot-Curie, 13384 Marseille Cedex 13, France
9 Department of Nonlinear Geophysical Processes, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
10 Centre for Non-linear Studies, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 21, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
11 Mathematical Statistics, Lund University, Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
12 Optical Sciences Group, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
13 Photonics Laboratory, UCLA, 420 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594, USA
14 Courant Res. Center Nano-Spectrosc. & X-Ray Imaging, Georg-August-Univ. Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
15 Centre de Mathématique et de Leurs Applications (CMLA), ENS Cachan, France
16 Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita’ di Torino, Italy
17 Nonlinear Waves Research Corporation, Arlington, Virginia, USA
a e-mail: ruban@itp.ac.ru
b e-mail: kodama@math.ohio-state.edu
c e-mail: M.S.Ruderman@sheffield.ac.uk
d e-mail: john.dudley@univ-fcomte.fr
e e-mail: R.H.J.Grimshaw@lboro.ac.uk
f e-mail: p.v.e.mcclintock@lancaster.ac.uk
g e-mail: miguel.onorato@unito.it
h e-mail: kharif@irphe.univ-mrs.fr
i e-mail: pelinovsky@hydro.appl.sci-nnov.ru
j e-mail: soomere@cs.ioc.ee
k e-mail: georg.lindgren@matstat.lu.se
l e-mail: nna124@rsphysse.anu.edu.au
m e-mail: Slunyaev@hydro.appl.sci-nnov.ru
n e-mail: jalali@ucla.edu
o e-mail: al.osborne@gmail.com
This paper contains the discussion inputs by the contributors of the special issue on the subject of rogue waves.
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