A New Reduction of the Self-Dual Yang–Mills Equations and its Applications

Abstract

Abstract Through imposing on space–time symmetries, a new reduction of the self-dual Yang–Mills equations is obtained for which a Lax pair is established. By a proper exponent transformation, we transform the Lax pair to get a new Lax pair whose compatibility condition gives rise to a set of partial differential equations (PDEs). We solve such PDEs by taking different Lax matrices; we develop a new modified Burgers equation, a generalised type of Kadomtsev–Petviasgvili equation, and the Davey–Stewartson equation, which also generalise some results given by Ablowitz, Chakravarty, Kent, and Newman.