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Liu Xi-Zhong, Yu Jun, Lou Zhi-Mei, Cao Qiao-Jun. Residual Symmetry Reduction and Consistent Riccati Expansion of the Generalized Kaup-Kupershmidt Equation . Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2018, 69(6): 625  
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Residual Symmetry Reduction and Consistent Riccati Expansion of the Generalized Kaup-Kupershmidt Equation
Liu Xi-Zhong, Yu Jun, Lou Zhi-Mei, Cao Qiao-Jun
Institute of Nonlinear Science, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China

 

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11405110, 11275129, 11472177, and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China under Grant Nos. LY18A050001 and LQ13A050002

Abstract
Abstract

The residual symmetry of the generalized Kaup-Kupershmidt (gKK) equation is obtained from the truncated Painlevé expansion and localized to a Lie point symmetry in a prolonged system. New symmetry reduction solutions of the prolonged system are given by using the standard Lie symmetry method. Furthermore, the gKK equation is proved to integrable in the sense of owning consistent Riccati expansion and some new Bäcklund transformations are given based on this property, from which interaction solutions between soliton and periodic waves are given.

Keyword:generalized Kaup-Kupershmidt equation;residual symmetry;consistent Riccati expansion
1 Introduction

Nonlinear wave equations in mathematical physics play a major role in various fields, such as plasma physics, fluid mechanics, optical fibers, solid state physics, chemical kinetics, geochemistry, and so on.[1] It is well known that the symmetry method is one of the most powerful tools in differential equations. The Lie point symmetry groups and associated reduction solutions can be obtained by using the classical or nonclassical Lie group method.[2–3] On the other hand, for integrable systems, nonlocal symmetries can be obtained via Lie-Bäklund symmetries,[4] potential symmetries,[5] inverse recursion operators,[6] the conformal-invariant form,[7] Darboux transformation,[8] Bäklund transformation(BT) and Lax pair.[9] However, nonlocal symmetries cannot be used directly to construct finite transformations and symmetry reduction solutions.

Recently, nonlocal residual symmetry related with the truncated Painlevé expansion has been investigated and many interesting results were obtained by localizing it to a Lie point symmetry in a new system.[10–14] Furthermore, by generalizing the truncated Painlevé expansion, Lou defined a new integrability for many nonlinear systems in the sense of possessing a consistent Riccati expansion (CRE).[15] For CRE integrable systems, interaction solutions between soliton and nonlinear waves can be easily obtained.[16–18]

In this paper, we investigate the generalized Kaup-Kupershmidt (gKK) equation by applying residual symmetry localization procedure and CRE method, respectively. The gKK equation is a fifth-order nonlinear evolution equation, which takes the form

with arbitrary constants a and b. In particular, by taking a = 1/10, b = −5 in Eq. (1), we get the Kaup-Kupershmidt (KK) equation

which is one of the solitonic equations related to the integrable cases of the Henon-Heiles system. Although the KK equation resembled with the Sawada-Kotera (SK) equation

they are fundamentally different, since there is no scaling which reduces Eq. (2) to Eq. (3). N-soliton solutions of the KK equation have been found by making use of Hirota’s bilinear transformation method.[19] In Ref. [20], the authors gave explicit formulas for the infinitesimal generators of symmetries by using a bi-Hamiltonian formulation. Moreover, the KK equation has infinite sets of conservation laws.[21–24]

This paper is organized as follows. In Sec. 2, the residual symmetry of the gKK system is obtained from the truncated Painlevé expansion and localized into a Lie point symmetry in a prolonged system, then the corresponding finite transformation group is given by using Lie’s first principle. In Sec. 3, the general form of Lie point symmetry group of the prolonged gKK system is obtained and the corresponding symmetry reduction solutions are constructed by using the standard Lie symmetry method, from which the interaction solutions between solitons and nonlinear waves for the original gKK equation (1) could be derived out. In Sec. 4, the gKK equation is proved to be CRE integrable and some new Bäklund tansformations are given based on this property, from which new interaction solutions of the gKK equation are obtained. The last section contains discussion and a summary.

2 Localization of Residual Symmetry and the Related Bäcklund Transformation

By means of leading-order analysis, the truncated Painlevé expansion of Eq. (1) reads

where ϕ is the singular manifold, and u0, u1, v2 are functions of x, t to be determined later. Substituting Eq. (4) into Eq. (1) and setting zero the coefficients of all the same powers of 1/ϕ we obtain

where ϕ satisfies Schwartzian form of Eq. (1)

with

It is obviously that Eq. (7) is form invariant under the Möbious transformation

which means Eq. (7) possess three symmetries σϕ = d1, σϕ = d2ϕ and

with arbitrary constants d1, d2, and d3.

By substituting Eq. (5) into Eq. (4), we get the following BT:

It is interesting that the residue u1 of the truncated Painlevé expansion (4) with respect to the singular manifold ϕ is just a nonlocal symmetry of Eq. (1) with the solution u2, which can be verified by substituting it into the linearized form of the gKK equation with Eqs. (5) and (7), for this reason it is called residual symmetry. Actually, the residual symmetry σu = u1 is just the generator of the Bäcklund transformation (4), which relates to the Möbious transformation symmetry (9) by the linearized equation of Eq. (6).

Due to the nonlocal property of a residual symmetry, it is hard to construct the corresponding finite transformation. To overcome this obstacle, a direct way is to localize it in a new prolonged system by introducing two new dependent variables, i.e.,

All the symmetries of the different variables are related with each other by the linearized equations of Eqs. (1), (7), (11), and (12)

It can be easily verified that the solutions of Eq. (13) have the form

if d3 = −1/30a and d1 = d2 = 0 is fixed for σϕ. In other words, the residual symmetry σu = 30aϕxx is localized in the properly prolonged system (1), (7), (11), and (12) with the Lie point symmetry vector

which means that symmetries related to the truncated Painlevé expansion is just a special Lie point symmetry of the prolonged system.

The finite transformation group corresponding to the Lie point symmetry (15) can be found by solving the following initial problem

Solving out these equations leads to the following Bäcklund transformation:

3 New Symmetry Reductions of the Generalized Kaup-Kupershmidt Equation

We seek the Lie point symmetry of the prolonged gKK system (1), (7), (11), and (12) in the general form

which means that the prolonged gKK system is invariant under the following transformation

with the infinitesimal parameter ϵ. Equivalently, the symmetry in the form (22) can be written as a function form

Substituting Eq. (24) into Eq. (13) and vanishing all the coefficients of the independent partial derivatives of dependent variables u, g, h and ϕ. Then we obtain a system of over determined linear equations for the infinitesimals X, T, U, G, H, Φ. Calculated by computer algebra, we finally get the desired result

with arbitrary constants c1, c2, c3, c4, c4, c6.

When setting c1 = c5 = c6 = 0 and c3 = 1 in Eq. (25), the general symmetry degenerated into the special form of Eq. (15), which includes residual symmetry of the gKK equation.

Consequently, the symmetries in Eq. (24) can be written as

To give out the group invariant solutions of the prolonged gKK system, we have to solve Eq. (26) under symmetry constraints σu = σg = σh = σϕ = 0, which is equivalent to solving the corresponding characteristic equation

Without loss of generality, we consider the symmetry reduction solutions of the prolonged gKK system in the following two subcases.

Substituting Eqs. (28)–(31) into the prolonged system (2), (7), (11), and (12) yields

where Φ satisfies the following symmetry reduction equation

One can see that once Φ is solved out from Eq. (35), then U, G, and H can be solved out directly from Eqs. (32), (33), and (34), respectively. The explicit solutions of the gKK equation (1) is immediately obtained by substituting U, H, G, and Φ into Eq. (31).

To give out a concrete example, we derive a simple solution for Eq. (35) under the condition Δ1 = 3c1a

with arbitrary constants d1 and d2, which leads to a simple solution for the gKK equation (1)

Substituting Eqs. (38), (39), (40) and (41) into the prolonged gKK system (1), (7), (11), and (12) yields

where ϕ′ satisfies the following symmetry reduction equation

From the symmetry reduction equations (42), (43), (44), and (45), one can easily get exact solutions of gKK equation by solving out u′, g′, h′, ϕ′ and substitute them into Eq. (41).

4 CRE Solvability and New Exact Solutions
4.1 CER Integrable

To investigate the consistent Riccati expansion (CRE) integrability for the gKK equation (1), by using leading order analysis, we give the following truncated expansion solution

where v0, v1, v2 are arbitrary functions of (x, t) and R(w) is a solution of the Riccati equation

Substituting Eq. (46) with Eq. (47) into Eq. (2) and vanishing all the coefficients of different powers of R(w), we get seven over-determined equations for only four undetermined functions v0, v1, v2, and w. It is fortunate that the over determined equations are consistent with each other and the coefficients are

where w satisfies the following equation

with

From above discussion, it is shown that gKK equation (1) really has the truncated Painlevé expansion solution related to the Riccati equation (47). At this point, we call the expansion (46) a CRE expansion and the gKK equation is CRE integrable.[25]

In summary, we have the following theorem:

4.2 Consistent tanh-Function Expansion

When the Riccati equation (47) takes the special solution R = tanh(w), the truncated Painlevé expansion solution (46) becomes

It is quite clear that a CRE solvable system must be CTE (consistent tanh expansion) solvable, and vice versa. If a system is CTE solvable, some important explicit solutions, especially the interactions between soliton and other nonlinear waves, may be directly constructed. To this end, we give out the following non-auto BT.

In order to obtain the explicit solution of Eq. (1), we consider w of Eq. (54) in the form

where g is an arbitrary function of x and t. It will lead to interaction solutions between solitons and background nonlinear waves. By means of Theorem 4, some nontrivial solutions of the gKK equation can be obtained from some quite trivial solutions of Eq. (54), which are listed as follows.

Hence, by substituting Eq. (63) and

with Eq. (64) into Eq. (62), we get a new solution for the gKK equation

where

5 Conclusion and Discussion

In summary, the gKK equation is investigated by using residual symmetry and CRE method, respectively. By introducing new variables, the residual symmetry is localized to a Lie point symmetry in a prolonged system and the corresponding finite transformation group is obtained by using Lie’s first theorem. For the prolonged gKK system, the general form of Lie point symmetry is found and symmetry reduction solutions are obtained in two subcases. From these symmetry reduction solutions, various interaction solutions of the gKK equation could be obtained. Moreover, the gKK equation is proved to be integrable in the CRE sense and some new Bäcklund transformations are obtained, from which some special special solutions including interaction solution between soliton and periodic waves are obtained.

Besides the residual symmetry discussed in this paper, there are other kinds of nonlocal symmetries, which can be obtained from Bäcklund transformation, negative hierarchies[26–27] and the self-consistent sources,[28] etc. The relation between these nonlocal symmetries in obtaining interaction solutions is an interesting topic, which will be discussed in our future research work.

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