Soliton (disambiguation)
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A soliton is a type of self-reinforcing solitary wave.
Soliton may also refer to:
- Soliton (optics), an optical field that does not change during propagation because of a balance between nonlinear and linear effects
- Soliton (topology), a solution of a system of partial differential equations or of a quantum field theory homotopically distinct from the vacuum solution
- Soliton distribution, a type of discrete probability distribution that arises in the theory of erasure correcting codes
- Soliton Incorporated, company
- Soliton model, neurological model
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