1. Introduction
Soliton equations play an important role in the field of nonlinear science, whose have specific solutions to describe and explain the nonlinear phenomena, for example, super conductivity, plasma and elastic media, etc. [1]-[3]. In the past decades, a considerable number of methods [4]-[10] have been developed for obtaining explicit solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. Among them, the Darboux transformation is one of effective algorithmic procedures to generate explicit solution of some nonlinear evolution equations from the trivial seeds [11] [12]. The key step for constructing the Darboux transformation is to keep the corresponding spectral problems. The N-fold Darboux transformation can be regarded as the superposition of single Darboux transformation, thus allowing for the further acquisition of various solutions through symbolic computation [13]-[15].
In this paper, we construct the N-fold Darboux transformation for the coupled mKdV equations
(1)
which are still unknown to our knowledge. Equation (1) is an important member of the AKNS hierarchy and has various applications in mathematical and physical fields.
This paper is organized as follows: In Section 2, based on Neugebauer’s idea, the N-fold DT of system (1) is constructed. In Section 3, the 2N-soliton solutions and N-complexiton solutions of system (1) are obtained, which are also expressed as vandermonde-like determinants. In Section 4, some conclusion is given.
2. N-Fold Darboux Transformation
In order to construct a N-fold DT of the system (1), let us consider the following spectral problem
(2)
and its auxiliary problem
(3)
the compatibility condition
yields a zero curvature equation
which yields coupled mKdV system (1) by a direct computation.
Now, we consider a gauge transformation of the spectral problems (2) and (3)
(4)
where
is defined by
(5)
(6)
By cross differentiating (5) and (6), we get
(7)
The lax pair (2) and (3) are transformed to
(8)
(7) and (8) implie that
has the same form as
expect replacing
and
with
and
.
Suppose the Darboux matrix
in the forms of
(9)
where
are functions of
and
.
Let
,
be two basic solutions of the spectral problems (2) and (3). From (5) and (6), there exist constants
, which satisfies
That is
and
are given by a linear algebraic system
(10)
with
(11)
where constants
and
(
,
, as
) are chosen properly such that the determinant of coefficients for (10) are nonzero. So,
and
are uniquely determined by (10).
From Equation (9), we have
(12)
On the other side, from system (10), we know that
(13)
Hence, it implies that
which shows that
are
roots of
, in other words,
(14)
Based on the above facts, we will prove the following propositions.
Proposition 1 Assume that
satisfies
(15)
then the matrix
has the same form as
, respectively, where the transformation between the old potential
into new ones are defined as
(16)
(17)
and
(18)
Proof Let
and
(19)
where
and
are
th-order polynomials in
,
are
th-order polynomials in
, from Equation (2) and (11), we find a Riccati equation
(20)
From (14) and (20), we can get that
are roots of
, in this way, together with (14) and (19) gives
(21)
with
(22)
where
are undetermined functions independent of
. And Equation (21) can be written as
(23)
By compared with the coefficients of
in Equation (23), we can find that
(24)
(25)
(26)
Substituting (15) and (16) into (24)-(26), we can obtain that
From (5) and (23), it is easy to see that
. Therefore, the proof of Proposition 1 is completed.
Next, let the solutions
and
also satisfy (3), we try to prove
in (6) has the same form as
under the transformation (4) and (17).
Proposition 2 Assume that
submits the differential equation with respect to the variable
(27)
Then, the matrix
has the same form as
, namely,
(28)
the old potentials
are mapped into new ones
according to the same Darboux transformation (4), (16) and (17).
Proof Let
and
(29)
where
and
are
th-order polynomials in
,
are
th-order polynomials in
. On the basic of (3), (11) and (13), we can get a Riccati equation
(30)
Through a series of calculation, we can get that
are roots of
. From (14) and (29), we arrive at
(31)
with
where
are undetermined functions independent of
. Equation (31) can be written as
(32)
According to compare the coefficients of
in Equation (32), we have
Substituting (15)-(17) into above expressions, we can obtain
(33)
Therefore, we have
, that is, the proof is completed.
The two propositions indicate that both of the lax pairs (2), (3) and (8) lead to the same system (1). The transformation (4), (16) and (17),
are called a DT of system (1).
Theorem The N-fold DT (16), (17) in terms of Vandermonde-like determinants can be written as
(34)
where
is determinant of the coefficients for the linear algebraic system (10), that is
with
is produced from
by replacing its
-th column with
,
is produced from
by replacing its
-th column with
, and
are given by (11).
3. The (2N)-Soliton Solutions
In this section, we shall apply the N-fold DT to obtain multi-soliton solutions of system (1). We start from the trivial solution
,
(as
and
are constants ) as our seed solutions, then we choose two basic solutions of (2) and (3)
with
thus,
can be written as
(35)
In what follows, we discuss soliton solutions of system (1) for the case of
, and
.
Let
, solving the linear algebraic system (10), we have
(36)
where
Resorting to expressions (16), (17), a multi-soliton solution of system (1) can be obtained as follows,
(37)
where
and
are arbitrary parameters.
For the case of
, solving the linear algebraic system (10), we have
(38)
where
Resorting to expressions (16) and (17), a multi-soliton solution of system (1) can be obtained as follows,
(39)
4. The Complexiton Solutions
If we take the trivial solution
, and choose conjugated spectral parameters as follows,
(40)
where
. then the corresponding compatible solution of the lax pairs (2) and (3) can be choosed as
(41)
where
and
are arbitrary real constants.
For the case of
, according to (11), we have
(42)
Resorting to expressions (40), (42) and DT (16) and (17), we can obtain the complexiton solutions of system (1),
(43)
where
with
(44)
and
are conjugated functions of
.
According to properties of determinant, N-complexiton solutions of system (1) can be obtained as follows.
(45)
where
with
are given by (44).
For simplicity, we shall discuss complexiton solutions of system (1) with a special case
, which we called 1-complexiton solutions of system (1).
(46)
where
with
are given by (42), and
are given by (40).
5. Conclusion and Suggestions
In this paper, an explicit N-fold Darboux transformation is constructed for the coupled mKdV equation, and through these transformations, the determinant forms of the multi-soliton and complexiton solutions of system (1) are obtained.
Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the NSFC (11975306), the Higher Educational Scientific Research Projects of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (NJZY20248) and the Scientific Research Project of Jining Normal University (Grant No. jsky2024008).