Dark and gray solitons of ($$$$)-dimensional nonlocal nonlinear media with periodic response function

By using the standard symmetry reduction method, some exact analytical solutions including gray solitons and gray soliton lattice solutions are derived for the (\(2+1\))-dimensional nonlinear optical media with periodic nonlocal response. Furthermore, dark/gray soliton solutions and dark soliton lattice solutions are found by means of hyperbolic function expansion method and elliptic function expansion method for the nonlocal nonlinear system, respectively. It is found that two critical points exist for soliton solutions, and the switching dynamics of solitons may be described by the critical points.