The present collection includes papers by participants of the Eighth International Conference Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, held at Kyiv (Kiev), June 21−27, 2009. It continues the series of meetings started at the Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine in 1995.

The issue contains 10 papers with the total of 209 pages.

We would like to thank all the conference participants, all the authors who have published papers in the issue, and to give our special thanks to all the referees for providing constructive reports.

Papers in this Issue:

Cosmological Symmetry Breaking and Generation of Electromagnetic Field

Michiyasu Nagasawa
SIGMA 6 (2010), 053, 10 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Finite Unification: Theory and Predictions

Sven Heinemeyer, Myriam Mondragón and George Zoupanos
SIGMA 6 (2010), 049, 29 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Multi-Component NLS Models on Symmetric Spaces: Spectral Properties versus Representations Theory

Vladimir S. Gerdjikov and Georgi G. Grahovski
SIGMA 6 (2010), 044, 29 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

The Lax Integrable Differential-Difference Dynamical Systems on Extended Phase Spaces

Oksana Ye. Hentosh
SIGMA 6 (2010), 034, 14 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

On Classical Dynamics of Affinely-Rigid Bodies Subject to the Kirchhoff-Love Constraints

Vasyl Kovalchuk
SIGMA 6 (2010), 031, 12 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Higher Genus Abelian Functions Associated with Cyclic Trigonal Curves

Matthew England
SIGMA 6 (2010), 025, 22 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Solitary Waves in Massive Nonlinear S^N-Sigma Models

Alberto Alonso Izquierdo, Miguel Ángel González León and Marina de la Torre Mayado
SIGMA 6 (2010), 017, 22 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Classical Particle in Presence of Magnetic Field, Hyperbolic Lobachevsky and Spherical Riemann Models

V.V. Kudryashov, Yu.A. Kurochkin, E.M. Ovsiyuk and V.M. Red'kov
SIGMA 6 (2010), 004, 34 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

On a Nonlocal Ostrovsky-Whitham Type Dynamical System, Its Riemann Type Inhomogeneous Regularizations and Their Integrability

Jolanta Golenia, Maxim V. Pavlov, Ziemowit Popowicz and Anatoliy K. Prykarpatsky
SIGMA 6 (2010), 002, 13 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Solvable Rational Potentials and Exceptional Orthogonal Polynomials in Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics

Christiane Quesne
SIGMA 5 (2009), 084, 24 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]