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The Derivation of a Fifth-Order Equation via the Lax and the Alternate Lax Methods

Year 2025, Volume: 46 Issue: 3, 583 - 589, 30.09.2025
https://doi.org/10.17776/csj.1733907

Abstract

We present the derivation of a fifth-order integrable nonlinear partial differential equation via the Lax method and the alternate Lax method in the continuous case. The Lax method uses a pair of differential operators, L and A, satisfying a compatibility condition. The pair (L,A) is known as the Lax pair. The alternate Lax method is a variation of the Lax method and use a consistency relation equivalent to the commutation of a certain derivative operator associated with the time evolution and the spacial evolution. In the paper we also show that the Lax method and the alternate Lax method are equivalent.

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Primary Language English
Subjects Ordinary Differential Equations, Difference Equations and Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations
Journal Section Natural Sciences
Authors

Mehmet Ünlü 0000-0001-6793-253X

Publication Date September 30, 2025
Submission Date July 3, 2025
Acceptance Date September 3, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Volume: 46 Issue: 3

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APA Ünlü, M. (2025). The Derivation of a Fifth-Order Equation via the Lax and the Alternate Lax Methods. Cumhuriyet Science Journal, 46(3), 583-589. https://doi.org/10.17776/csj.1733907