Higher-Order Matrix Spectral Problems and Their Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies

Abstract

Starting from a kind of higher-order matrix spectral problems, we generate integrable Hamiltonian hierarchies through the zero-curvature formulation. To guarantee the Liouville integrability of the obtained hierarchies, the trace identity is used to establish their Hamiltonian structures. Illuminating examples of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations and coupled modified Korteweg–de Vries equations are worked out.

Keywords

• Lax pair
• zero-curvature equation
• integrable hierarchy NLS equations
• mKdV equations