Differential reductions of the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation and associated higher dimensional nonlinear PDEs

Abstract

We represent an algorithm allowing one to construct new classes of partially integrable multidimensional nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) starting with the special type of solutions to the (1 + 1)-dimensional hierarchy of nonlinear PDEs linearizable by the matrix Hopf–Cole substitution (the Bürgers hierarchy). We derive examples of four-dimensional nonlinear matrix PDEs together with the scalar and three-dimensional reductions. Variants of the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili-type and Korteweg–de Vries-type equations are represented among them. Our algorithm is based on the combination of two Frobenius-type reductions and special differential reduction imposed on the matrix fields of integrable PDEs. It is shown that the derived four-dimensional nonlinear PDEs admit arbitrary functions of two variables in their solution spaces which clarifies the integrability degree of these PDEs.