Integrable modifications of the Ito-Narita-Bogoyavlensky equation (Q2330835)

The authors consider five-point differential-difference equations. The aim is to find integrable modifications of the Ito-Narita-Bogoyavlensky (INB) equation related to it by non-invertible discrete transformations. They enumerate all modifications associated to transformations of the first, second and third orders. Such a classification problem is solved for the first time in the discrete case. A number of new integrable five-point equations and new transformations are found. Moreover, they derive a new completely discrete equation. This paper is organized as follows: the first section is an introduction to the subject. In Section 2 the authors discuss some theoretical aspects and prove a boundedness theorem for the orders of possible transformations. They classify in Section 3 modifications of the INB equation of the levels 1 and 2, which correspond to transformations of orders 1 and 2. Section 4 is devoted to transformations of order 3. The authors classify all integrable modifications of the INB equation of the third level. In Section 5 the authors discuss in detail the most interesting examples of equations and transformations obtained in the previous section.