Nonlocal Symmetry, CRE Solvability and Exact Interaction Solutions of the Asymmetric Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov System

Abstract

Abstract Applying the truncated Painlevé expansion to the (2+1)-dimensional asymmetric Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov (ANNV) system, some Bäcklund transformations (BTs) including auto BT and non-auto BT are obtained. The auto BT leads to a nonlocal symmetry which corresponds to the residual of the truncated Painlevé expansion and the related nonlocal symmetry group is presented with the help of the localization procedure. Further, it is shown that the ANNV system has a consistent Riccati expansion (CRE). Stemming from the consistent tan-function expansion (CTE), which is a special form of CRE, some complex interaction solutions between soliton and arbitrary other seed waves of the ANNV system are readily constructed, such as bight-dark soliton solution, dark-dark soliton solution, soliton-cnoidal interaction solutions, solitoff solutions and so on.