Nondegenerate solitons in the integrable fractional coupled Hirota equation

Abstract

In this paper, based on the nonlinear fractional equations proposed by Ablowitz, Been, and Carr in the sense of Riesz fractional derivative, we explore the fractional coupled Hirota equation and give its explicit form. Unlike the previous nonlinear fractional equations, this type of nonlinear fractional equation is integrable. Therefore, we obtain the fractional n-soliton solutions of the fractional coupled Hirota equation by inverse scattering transformation in the reflectionless case. In particular, we analyze the one- and two-soliton solutions and prove that the fractional two-soliton can also be regarded as a linear superposition of two fractional single solitons as |t|→∞. Moreover, we obtain the nondegenerate fractional soliton solutions and give a simple analysis for them.