title: Dissipative shocks in a chain fountain.
abstract: The fascinating and anomalous behavior of a chain that instead of falling straight down under gravity, first rises and then falls, acquiring a steady shape in space that resembles a fountain's spray, has recently attracted both popular and academic interest. The paper presents a complete mathematical solution of this problem, whose distinctive feature is the introduction of a number of dissipative shocks that can be resolved exactly.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 5, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Epifanio G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Virga