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Nondispersive wave

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A nondispersive wave has constant phase velocity on a propagation branch. For ω=ck, its group velocity is also c. A frequency relation with a nonzero offset, such as ω=ck+b, has constant group velocity but a phase velocity c+b/k depending on wavenumber; constant group velocity alone is therefore not sufficient for nondispersion.

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