This is a continuation of our previous paper arXiv:1904.07924, which is devoted to the construction of integrable semi-discretizations of the Davey-Stewartson system and a $(2+1)$-dimensional Yajima-Oikawa system; in this series of papers, we refer t
o a discretization of one of the two spatial variables as a semi-discretization. In this paper, we construct an integrable semi-discrete Davey-Stewartson system, which is essentially different from the semi-discrete Davey-Stewartson system proposed in the previous paper arXiv:1904.07924. We first obtain integrable semi-discretizations of the two elementary flows that compose the Davey-Stewartson system by constructing their Lax-pair representations and show that these two elementary flows commute as in the continuous case. Then, we consider a linear combination of the two elementary flows to obtain a new integrable semi-discretization of the Davey-Stewartson system. Using a linear transformation of the continuous independent variables, one of the two elementary Davey-Stewartson flows can be identified with an integrable semi-discretization of the $(2+1)$-dimensional Yajima-Oikawa system proposed in https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.062902 .
The integrable Davey-Stewartson system is a linear combination of the two elementary flows that commute: $mathrm{i} q_{t_1} + q_{xx} + 2qpartial_y^{-1}partial_x (|q|^2) =0$ and $mathrm{i} q_{t_2} + q_{yy} + 2qpartial_x^{-1}partial_y (|q|^2) =0$. In t
he literature, each elementary Davey-Stewartson flow is often called the Fokas system because it was studied by Fokas in the early 1990s. In fact, the integrability of the Davey-Stewartson system dates back to the work of Ablowitz and Haberman in 1975; the elementary Davey-Stewartson flows, as well as another integrable $(2+1)$-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation $mathrm{i} q_{t} + q_{xy} + 2 qpartial_y^{-1}partial_x (|q|^2) =0$ proposed by Calogero and Degasperis in 1976, appeared explicitly in Zakharovs article published in 1980. By applying a linear change of the independent variables, an elementary Davey-Stewartson flow can be identified with a $(2+1)$-dimensional generalization of the integrable long wave-short wave interaction model, called the Yajima-Oikawa system: $mathrm{i} q_{t} + q_{xx} + u q=0$, $u_t + c u_y = 2(|q|^2)_x$. In this paper, we propose a new integrable semi-discretization (discretization of one of the two spatial variables, say $x$) of the Davey-Stewartson system by constructing its Lax-pair representation; the two elementary flows in the semi-discrete case indeed commute. By applying a linear change of the continuous independent variables to an elementary flow, we also obtain an integrable semi-discretization of the $(2+1)$-dimensional Yajima-Oikawa system.
We propose a new integrable generalization of the Toda lattice wherein the original Flaschka-Manakov variables are coupled to newly introduced dependent variables; the general case wherein the additional dependent variables are vector-valued is consi
dered. This generalization admits a Lax pair based on an extension of the Jacobi operator, an infinite number of conservation laws and, in a special case, a simple Hamiltonian structure. In fact, the second flow of this generalized Toda hierarchy reduces to the usual Toda lattice when the additional dependent variables vanish; the first flow of the hierarchy reduces to a long wave-short wave interaction model, known as the Yajima-Oikawa system, in a suitable continuous limit. This integrable discretization of the Yajima-Oikawa system is essentially different from the discrete Yajima-Oikawa system proposed in arXiv:1509.06996 (also see https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.062902) and studied in arXiv:1804.10224. Two integrable discretizations of the nonlinear Schrodinger hierarchy, the Ablowitz-Ladik hierarchy and the Konopelchenko-Chudnovsky hierarchy, are contained in the generalized Toda hierarchy as special cases.
A space discretization of an integrable long wave-short wave interaction model, called the Yajima-Oikawa system, was proposed in the recent paper arXiv:1509.06996 using the Hirota bilinear method (see also https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.91
.062902). In this paper, we propose a Lax-pair representation for the discrete Yajima-Oikawa system as well as its multicomponent generalization also considered in arXiv:1509.06996 and prove that it has an infinite number of conservation laws. We also derive the next higher flow of the discrete Yajima-Oikawa hierarchy, which generalizes a modified version of the Volterra lattice. Relations to two integrable discrete nonlinear Schrodinger hierarchies, the Ablowitz-Ladik hierarchy and the Konopelchenko-Chudnovsky hierarchy, are clarified.
The action of a Backlund-Darboux transformation on a spectral problem associated with a known integrable system can define a new discrete spectral problem. In this paper, we interpret a slightly generalized version of the binary Backlund-Darboux (or
Zakharov-Shabat dressing) transformation for the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) hierarchy as a discrete spectral problem, wherein the two intermediate potentials appearing in the Darboux matrix are considered as a pair of new dependent variables. Then, we associate the discrete spectral problem with a suitable isospectral time-evolution equation, which forms the Lax-pair representation for a space-discrete NLS system. This formulation is valid for the most general case where the two dependent variables take values in (rectangular) matrices. In contrast to the matrix generalization of the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice, our discretization has a rational nonlinearity and admits a Hermitian conjugation reduction between the two dependent variables. Thus, a new proper space-discretization of the vector/matrix NLS equation is obtained; by changing the time part of the Lax pair, we also obtain an integrable space-discretization of the vector/matrix modified KdV (mKdV) equation. Because Backlund-Darboux transformations are permutable, we can increase the number of discrete independent variables in a multi-dimensionally consistent way. By solving the consistency condition on the two-dimensional lattice, we obtain a new Yang-Baxter map of the NLS type, which can be considered as a fully discrete analog of the principal chiral model for projection matrices.
We propose a general integrable lattice system involving some free parameters, which contains known integrable lattice systems such as the Ablowitz-Ladik discretization of the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation as special cases. With a suitable cho
ice of the parameters, it provides a new integrable space-discretization of the derivative NLS equation known as the Chen-Lee-Liu equation. Analogously to the continuous case, the space-discrete Chen-Lee-Liu system possesses a Lax pair and admits a complex conjugation reduction between the two dependent variables. Thus, we obtain a proper space-discretization of the Chen-Lee-Liu equation defined on the three lattice sites $n-1$, $n$, $n+1$ for the first time. Considering a negative flow of the discrete Chen-Lee-Liu hierarchy, we obtain a proper discretization of the massive Thirring model in light-cone coordinates. Multicomponent generalizations of the obtained discrete equations are straightforward because the performed computations are valid for the general case where the dependent variables are vector- or matrix-valued.
In their reply arXiv:1408.2230, the authors corrected some inappropriate sentences and clarified misleading descriptions in their original manuscript arXiv:1407.5194v1.
In the recent paper (R. Willox and M. Hattori, arXiv:1406.5828), an integrable discretization of the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation is studied, which, they think, was discovered by Date, Jimbo and Miwa in 1983 and has been completely forgotten
over the years. In fact, this discrete NLS hierarchy can be directly obtained from an elementary auto-Backlund transformation for the continuous NLS hierarchy and has been known since 1982. Nevertheless, it has been rediscovered again and again in the literature without attribution, so we consider it meaningful to mention overlooked original references on this discrete NLS hierarchy.
In the recent paper (Wen-Xiu Ma, Solomon Manukure and Hong-Chan Zheng, arXiv:1405.1089), the authors proposed an integrable hierarchy different from the well-known Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa (WKI) hierarchy. However, using a simple linear change of depend
ent variables, one can check that their hierarchy is equivalent to the WKI hierarchy. For the same reason, some new integrable hierarchies proposed by Wen-Xiu Ma and coworkers in recent e-prints are equivalent to the already known ones.
We propose a new type of reduction for integrable systems of coupled matrix PDEs; this reduction equates one matrix variable with the transposition of another multiplied by an antisymmetric constant matrix. Via this reduction, we obtain a new integra
ble system of coupled derivative mKdV equations and a new integrable variant of the massive Thirring model, in addition to the already known systems. We also discuss integrable semi-discretizations of the obtained systems and present new soliton solutions to both continuous and semi-discrete systems. As a by-product, a new integrable semi-discretization of the Manakov model (self-focusing vector NLS equation) is obtained.
