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Graded Symmetry Algebras of Time-Dependent Evolution Equations and Application to the Modified KP equations

W. X. Ma, R. K. Bullough, P. J. Caudrey

solv-intarXiv:solv-int/9705015

Abstract

By starting from known graded Lie algebras, including Virasoro algebras, new kinds of time-dependent evolution equations are found possessing graded symmetry algebras. The modified KP equations are taken as an illustrative example: new modified KP equations with m arbitrary time-dependent coefficients are obtained possessing symmetries involving m arbitrary functions of time. A particular graded symmetry algebra for the modified KP equations is derived in this connection homomorphic to the Virasoro algebras.

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