N-fold Darboux Transformation for Integrable Couplings of AKNS Equations

For the integrable couplings of Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur(ICAKNS) equations, N-fold Darboux transformation(DT) TN, which is a 4 × 4 matrix, is constructed in this paper. Each element of this matrix is expressed by a ratio of the(4N + 1)-order determinant and 4N-order determinant of eigenfunctions. By making use of these formulae,the determinant expressions of N-transformed new solutions p~([N ]), q~([N ]), r~([N ])and s~([N ])are generated by this N-fold DT.Furthermore, when the reduced conditions q =-p*and s =-r*are chosen, we obtain determinant representations of N-fold DT and N-transformed solutions for the integrable couplings of nonlinear Schr?dinger(ICNLS) equations.Starting from the zero seed solutions, one-soliton solutions are explicitly given as an example.