Symmetries and conservation laws for a generalization of Kawahara equation

Abstract

We provide a complete classification of generalized and formal symmetries and local conservation laws for an evolution equation which generalizes the Kawahara equation having important applications in the study of plasma waves and capillary-gravity water waves. In particular, we show that the equation under study admits no genuinely generalized symmetries and has only finitely many local conservation laws, and thus this equation is not symmetry integrable.