Integrable couplings of soliton equations by perturbations. I: A general theory and application to the KdV hierarchy (Q5937110)

The author discusses a problem of integrable couplings. That is, having an integrable system of evolution equations \(u_t=K(u)\), how to obtain a bigger (nontrivial) integrable system consisting of \(u_t=K(u)\) and \(v_t = S(u,v)\). ``Using various perturbations around solutions of perturbed soliton equations being analytic with respect to a small perturbation parameter'' the author developes ``a theory for constructing integrable couplings of soliton equations''. Application of the theory to the KdV hierarchy is given.