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Nonlocal symmetries related to B\"acklund transformation and their applications

Mathematical Physics 2012-01-18 v1 math.MP

Abstract

Starting from nonlocal symmetries related to B\"acklund transformation (BT), many interesting results can be obtained. Taking the well known potential KdV (pKdV) equation as an example, a new type of nonlocal symmetry in elegant and compact form which comes from BT is presented and used to make researches in the following three subjects: two sets of negative pKdV hierarchies and their corresponding bilinear forms are constructed; the nonlocal symmetry is localized by introduction of suitable and simple auxiliary dependent variables to generate new solutions from old ones and to consider some novel group invariant solutions; some other models both in finite dimensions and infinite dimensions are generated by comprising the original BT and evolution under new nonlocal symmetry. The finite-dimensional models are completely integrable in Liouville sense, which are shown equivalent to the results given through the nonlinearization method for Lax pair.

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@article{arxiv.1201.3409,
  title  = {Nonlocal symmetries related to B\"acklund transformation and their applications},
  author = {S. Y. Lou and Xiaorui Hu and Yong Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3409},
  year   = {2012}
}