Conservation laws and line soliton solutions of a family of modified KP equations

Abstract

A family of modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations (mKP) in 2+1 dimensions is studied. This family includes the integrable mKP equation when the coefficients of the nonlinear terms and the transverse dispersion term satisfy an algebraic condition. The explicit line soliton solution and all conservation laws of low order are derived for all equations in the family and compared to their counterparts in the integrable case.

12 pages; 9 figures. Minor revisions, including conservation laws and features of line solitons. Contribution to proceedings of 12th AIMS conference