Soliton multidimensional equations and integrable evolutions preserving Laplace's equation

The KP equation, which is an integrable nonlinear evolution equation in 2+1, i.e., two spatial and one temporal dimensions, is a physically significant generalization of the KdV equation. The question of constructing an integrable generalization of the KP equation in 3+1, has been one of the central open problems in the field of integrability. By complexifying the independent variables of the KP equation, I obtain an integrable nonlinear evolution equation in 4+2. The requirement that real initial conditions remain real under this evolution, implies that the dependent variable satisfies a nonlinear evolution equation in 3+1 coupled with Laplace's equation. A reduction of this system of equations to a single equation in 2+1 contains as particular cases certain singular integro-differential equations which appear in the theory of water waves.