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Authors: Thierry Dauxois, Michel Peyrard, Stefano Ruffo

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005

Abstract: The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) pioneering numerical experiment played a major role in the history of computer simulation because it introduced this concept for the first time. Moreover, it raised a puzzling question which was answered more than 10 years later. After an introduction to this problem, we briefly review its history and then suggest some simple numerical experiments, with a provided Matlab code, to study various aspects of the ‘FPU’ problem.

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