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We have observed highly nonlinear localized wave packets propagating as flexural modes of thin shells. They maintain their structure in a collision and have envelopes in quantitative agreement with the soliton solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.
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Wu et al. (1987) studied this question.
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