An integrable coupled Alice–Bob modified Korteweg de-Vries system: Lax pairs, Bäcklund transformations, residual symmetries and exact solutions

ABSTRACT

A coupled Alice–Bob modified Korteweg de-Vries (mKdV) system is established from the mKdV equation in this paper, which is nonlocal and suitable to model two-place entangled events. The Lax integrability of the coupled Alice–Bob mKdV system is proved by demonstrating three types of Lax pairs. By means of the truncated Painlevé expansion, auto-Bäcklund transformation of the coupled Alice–Bob mKdV system and Bäcklund transformation between the coupled Alice–Bob mKdV system and the Schwarzian mKdV equation are demonstrated. Nonlocal residual symmetries of the coupled Alice–Bob mKdV system are researched. To obtain localized Lie point symmetries of residual symmetries, the coupled Alice–Bob mKdV system is extended to a system consisting six equations. Calculation on the prolonged system shows that it is invariant under the scaling transformations, space-time translations, phase translations and Galilean translations. One-parameter group transformation and one-parameter subgroup invariant solutions are obtained. The consistent Riccati expansion (CRE) solvability of the coupled Alice–Bob mKdV system is proved and some interaction structures between soliton–cnoidal waves are obtained by CRE. Moreover, Jacobi periodic wave solutions, solitary wave solutions and singular solutions are obtained by elliptic function expansion and exponential function expansion.

KEYWORDS:

• Alice–Bob modified Korteweg de-Vries equation
• Lax pair
• residual symmetries
• exact solution
• Bäcklund transformation

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Professor Sen-Yue Lou for his valuable discussion.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 11775047 and 11305031], the Science and Technology Project Foundation of Zhongshan [grant number 2017B1016] and the Innovation Team of Zhongshan City [grant number 170615151170710].