Painlevé property, local and nonlocal symmetries, and symmetry reductions for a (2+1)-dimensional integrable KdV equation* *Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11975131 and 11435005) and the K C Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.

Abstract

The Painlevé property for a (2+1)-dimensional Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) extension, the combined KP3 (Kadomtsev–Petviashvili) and KP4 (cKP3-4), is proved by using Kruskal’s simplification. The truncated Painlevé expansion is used to find the Schwartz form, the Bäcklund/Levi transformations, and the residual nonlocal symmetry. The residual symmetry is localized to find its finite Bäcklund transformation. The local point symmetries of the model constitute a centerless Kac–Moody–Virasoro algebra. The local point symmetries are used to find the related group-invariant reductions including a new Lax integrable model with a fourth-order spectral problem. The finite transformation theorem or the Lie point symmetry group is obtained by using a direct method.