<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">OJAppS</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Open Journal of Applied Sciences</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2165-3917</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ojapps.2014.45025</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">OJAppS-44896</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Biomedical&amp;Life Sciences</subject><subject> Chemistry&amp;Materials Science</subject><subject> Computer Science&amp;Communications</subject><subject> Engineering</subject><subject> Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  New Exact Explicit Solutions of the Generalized Zakharov Equation via the First Integral Method
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>uhuai</surname><given-names>Sun</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hanlei</surname><given-names>Hu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jian</surname><given-names>Zhang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Institute of Mathematics and Software Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>sunyuhuai63@163.com(US)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>08</day><month>04</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>04</volume><issue>05</issue><fpage>249</fpage><lpage>257</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>1</day>	<month>March</month>	<year>2014</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>3</day>	<month>April</month>	<year>2014</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>10</day>	<month>April</month>	<year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  The generalized Zakharov equation is a coupled equation which is a classic nonlinear mathematic model in plasma. A series of new exact explicit solutions of the system are obtained, by means of the first integral method, in the form of trigonometric and exponential functions. The results show the first integral method is an efficient way to solve the coupled nonlinear equations and get rich explicit analytical solutions.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Generalized Zakharov Equation</kwd><kwd> First Integral Method</kwd><kwd> Exact Explicit Solutions</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>The generalized Zakharov equation have been the focus of many researchers due to two facts: the system is a classic nonlinear mathematic model in plasma physics; the exact solutions to the system are widely applied in many scientific and engineering fields. The generalized Zakharov equation is a coupled equation written as [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref1">1</xref>]</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94070"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\280f04a4-95fe-4b2d-beb7-f238bd46c14c.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\cf50457c-f5d3-43d1-a5f3-b90198e9cd24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the envelope of the high-frequency electric field, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\e9d42333-74d2-4f0e-9458-d2f18b464bda.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the plasma density measured from its equilibrium value, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\34cb50be-ae35-4ed9-8a2c-ea8eb879ce0f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a real coefficient, x and t are 1-dimensional space and time coordinate, respectively. Up to now, many methods have been used to solve the exact solution of the system (1) such as rational auxiliary equation method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref2">2</xref>] , F-expansion method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref3">3</xref>] , and Li et al. obtained the generalized solitary solutions by exp-function method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref4">4</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref5">5</xref>] , Hong got the doubly periodic solutions by the generalized Jacobi elliptic function expansion method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref6">6</xref>] , M. Javidi constructed dark and bright solitary wave solutions by a variational iteration method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref7">7</xref>] . Besides, Guo discussed the existence and uniqueness of smooth solution [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref8">8</xref>] , Gambo investigates the dynamical behavior [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref9">9</xref>] , S. Abbasbandy solved the numerical solutions [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref10">10</xref>] of the system (1).</p><p>The first integral method is based on the ring theory of commutative algebra, the pioneer work can be traced to Feng, he first proposed the first integral method for solving Burgers-KdV equation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref11">11</xref>] and then further developed it. Recently, Bin Lu applied this method to construct travelling wave solutions of the (2 + 1)-dimensional BKK system and (3 + 1)-dimensional Burgers equation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref12">12</xref>] , Hodsein et al. also reported new solutions of the Davey-Stewartson equation by using this method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref13">13</xref>] , the method has also been successfully adopted for solving some important complex partial differential equations in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref14">14</xref>] -[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44896-ref23">23</xref>] .</p><p>In order to explore new analysis solutions to the system (1), we attempted to use the first integral method to solve the generalized Zakharov equation for the first time. The rest of the paper proceeds as follows: In Section 2, we briefly introduce the first integral method. In Section 3, we apply the method to the generalized Zakharov equation, and give the exact explicit solutions under two different cases. Finally, some conclusions are given in Section 4.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. The First Integral Method</title><p>Consider the nonlinear partial differential equation (NLPDE) in the form:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94071"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\e3c71e53-a61b-4011-99b3-857a13590651.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\ab8eb323-8eb8-45e4-94f3-ea322d9ac78c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the solution of Equation (2).</p><p>First, we use the travelling wave transformation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94072"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\016fa6c0-db48-43c8-9b7d-4f2f846d6290.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where c is a constant to be determined later, then the NLPDE is reduced to a nonlinear ordinary differential system</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94073"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\7efebdde-5139-4b33-bc94-7074472a0fe7.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where the prime denotes the differential with respect to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\7f355607-69f7-43a3-a913-710cdcbdfeb5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Next, we introduce new independent variables</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94074"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\d84afd02-e293-4e96-a675-8fa96089dd32.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>then (4) can be converted to a system of the nonlinear ordinary differential system as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94075"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\60f6f38b-83a5-4a4d-87e6-2c450c6b222f.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>According to the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations, the general solutions to (6) can be solved directly if we can find two integrals to (6) under the same conditions. However, it is really difficult to realize this even for one first integral, because for a given autonomous system, there is no systematic theory about how to find its first integral, nor is there a logical way could tell what these first integrals are. A key idea of our approach here is to apply the Division Theorem to obtain one first integral to (6) which reduces (4) to a first-order integrable ODE, then the exact solutions for (2) will be obtained by solving this equation. Now, let’s recall the Division Theorem.</p><p>Division Theorem Suppose that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\d4a1fa1a-44a6-41df-982c-2243aa5f9d78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are polynomials in complex domain<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\43ff0492-18f7-4d5c-bd92-afcc0e45f065.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\2b281d61-95c6-4057-b103-0b2dda1c9597.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is irreducible in<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\5ade7beb-abcc-4e48-9253-816c557a7fe6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\c6d330eb-dec6-4f1f-ba02-1ff94718064d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> vanishes at all zero points of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\3e43969d-4ea2-49ba-8a30-7fec0e79a98c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then there exists a polynomial <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\d5c51920-ddf5-4be7-9391-3015376b0220.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\9f4b39d0-5d12-4423-b8f6-0d2a3afe023f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\4382217e-9737-4fd9-8863-4411693d0422.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. New Exact Explicit Solutions of the Generalized Zakharov Equation</title><p>In order to seek the exact solutions of system (1), we assume</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94076"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\a851dfb1-83f4-4f10-894b-8c6de35bcbb7.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Substituting (7) into (1) and yields:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94077"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\d39e53a6-e2d3-4bf1-bd60-646b5a13e786.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Using the transformations</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94078"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\9e8e91eb-a5e8-4cdd-ab2e-627fb67327da.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\68e549ae-e428-4248-b717-f665fbe365a8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a nonzero constant, then (8) further reduced to</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94079"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\ef5de6c4-1498-4b6e-977a-f76cff2e253f.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where “<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\e499ddee-f30b-4a9c-8a1f-f052d3a028a3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>” denotes<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\61ce5f31-77a9-4fe3-bb16-62a1347092e6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Integrating Equation (10b) with respect to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\d49c489c-7be4-4051-b905-4b496aecdb17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and taking the integration constant as zero yields</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94080"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\f59581a8-ab0b-44e6-b8b0-a783e689470c.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Substituting (11) into (10a) and yields:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94081"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\3bf66e00-f83e-4d07-8fbf-9e6a306e250c.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Now, we introduce new independent variables <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\4b1a3fd6-43cb-435a-b15d-d5991bb079fa.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which change Equation (12) to a dynamical system given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94082"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\dcedef4e-06b7-4acf-9179-f4afd62bb907.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Applying the Division Theorem to seek the first integral to (13). Suppose that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\e1dfacd4-0fa2-49bd-bbb8-ce7c679683c4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\e3a3021e-b1fb-4b51-92a0-d6c8c9e0ee1f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are nontrivial solutions to (13), and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\473b7edd-5b5a-42b6-a0ba-14190709037a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is an irreducible polynomial such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94083"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\65e32193-5ef6-4156-a1c4-25013d49c37b.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\1c1c443b-4bc8-40d7-9dfc-bccc7b48d821.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are polynomials of X and all relatively primes,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\e6e0123a-4a9a-4b27-ad81-c7d3e9144e19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Equation (14) is called the first integral to (13). Note that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\4104aebe-2925-4d6b-910e-0287e11a0425.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a polynomial of X and Y, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\0352bc1a-a805-49a6-b508-45ffef0a18ea.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> implies<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\81df6af8-a731-4533-81e0-90ffd1980ddb.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Due to the Division Theorem, there exists a polynomial <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\c84248e8-7e06-4a0b-b302-2dcfc61fde7d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94084"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\b85c1e24-bc40-41df-9484-fc5cb24ffafe.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We will take two different cases into consideration in the following, assuming that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\8a4e8cf3-1c6b-43c8-a2bc-6bd482c0b620.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Equation (15).</p><p>Case A:</p><p>Suppose that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\5215fb30-7f42-4cda-bee7-7668d324808d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, by equating the coefficients of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\288d7543-83d2-4c10-864b-1b4e6f8622aa.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> on both sides of (15), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94085"><label>(16a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\34bffea7-e675-492a-9329-1ffc3f0ecca9.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94086"><label>(16b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\eae1010b-ff36-4234-9732-850c5f7668f6.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94087"><label>(16c)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\e7180c91-f5dc-4c8e-a575-d11fc7fbb5a4.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\f0a0ae98-ff31-4c51-9c23-f9a3ddf48f2d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are polynomials in<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\72d04707-8470-4a16-b582-082c283f7b4d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then from (16a) we deduce that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\3c1bd2b1-ced8-4a38-8d29-dc67eff763e8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a constant and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\61a6fc32-a603-42ed-a000-9273df0843ed.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. For simplicity, we take<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\f17f3ca5-2bf6-4edc-bbac-a4f917d459d3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Balancing the degrees of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\30c98de4-5fb4-45dd-b040-ee0544d3dcba.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\44dc86ad-3fc1-484a-aecf-bf96fd215456.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in (16b), we conclude that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\0d7ea40b-7385-49b8-ac89-b3331b1549f5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> only. Suppose that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\92aad90f-610a-4f89-ae61-948c96d29b76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then from Equation (16b) we find</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94088"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\4f999324-de2f-4d71-8bec-bdd9707f21b0.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where C is an arbitrary integration constant.</p><p>Substituting<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\d68f5ef0-3222-4183-a927-8885fe39bbc6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\1e83243f-512c-4c64-b733-f673e0f538b5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\7d36656b-f126-4470-8673-f1ddea6430e0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> into Equation (16c) and setting all the coefficients of powers x to be zero, we obtain a system of nonlinear algebraic equations</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94089"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\69a248ed-8814-4130-8493-505ce1fa6330.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By solving it, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94090"><label>(19a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\d6c31da8-0dd1-4241-afd1-3ad92f464a4a.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94091"><label>(19b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\eb2ecd6f-edeb-4e79-a077-0399a415871d.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Using the conditions (19a), (19b) in (14) respectively, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94092"><label>(20a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\e5128133-2b9c-48a4-846a-6674e36866b5.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94093"><label>(20b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\3539e2bc-8705-4f91-8724-dffaa18d34dc.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Combining (20a) with (13), we obtain the exact solutions to (13) as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94094"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\e2b82f33-35f9-4420-8c2f-4bbfd3811ef3.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\787aadbe-f086-4a67-b3b6-4008e8102e9a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is an arbitrary constant.</p><p>Then the exact solutions to the system (1) can be written as</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94095"><label>(22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\52b3205f-c6c0-4bdd-9f24-d4d38ff818be.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similarly, in the case of (20b), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94096"><label>(23)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\05ba8d56-d418-4c95-8fd0-e5d2a06e4940.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\ccf02a7c-2b58-4c1c-ad1f-318b86d92351.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is an arbitrary constant.</p><p>Then the exact solutions to the system (1) are given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94097"><label>(24)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\35fd3966-7be1-4c74-9358-3df146084a54.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We can get distinctive solutions by giving different values to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\15e9a0de-65ce-431b-bdf9-ff59aa862e71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Case B:</p><p>Suppose that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\036f5ce3-4259-4990-b20a-bbaea0df0e44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, by equating the coefficients of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\dd8389bd-89b1-40e1-bca0-a793110aa299.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> on both sides of (15), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94098"><label>(25a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\9017486a-21f3-4f69-91a8-1a70afdcc1fb.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94099"><label>(25b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\d55e1c7d-4a6f-4c51-a8fe-44f18ac05837.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94100"><label>(25c)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\9a2b1c55-e77d-4c82-9b72-8b12c657499b.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94101"><label>(25d)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\c64b1117-1e86-4a2e-b4d1-b1303c4aeb9e.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\f3511b27-40d1-42cb-b2d8-ae4873f34bcd.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are polynomials, then from (25a) we deduce that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\1ac08db9-9b79-41bc-9ed1-511b809b5fe3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a constant and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\aab23c11-50f7-4869-9d7f-195e0cf108f3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. For simplicity, we take<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\830bf507-b8aa-4424-a5f8-e86dce207711.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Balancing the degrees of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\6042d29d-6be9-40d0-b580-1ff6f16eec8d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\dbee5b40-46d7-4ef5-a2fb-1ca72ff0a7c0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\63e2f105-d9af-47a3-b25a-7c292b64c414.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we conclude that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\3163323c-9fc3-41c1-b7c9-28c4f4a9dde0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> or<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\add77637-ada0-4d62-aa38-12f5b8c04d61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Actually, if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\ad548350-f48c-4172-bb16-4be590b86fc7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, suppose that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\1690d3ee-6e63-4d08-adf1-228d1c30741b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then from (25b)-(25c), we know<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\9f1c051c-0f6a-4016-8ecf-a5fb017dc5f8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\d41cb41c-77ff-421a-b624-ed5343cb4af8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and from (25d), we have<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\74e806b8-31ff-4038-a5d0-8dbacf04b12f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\cc72b348-8cea-40ba-8463-ea963f0afde8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which is contrary to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\942fa334-07e5-405c-806e-629590034aa3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Case 1 When<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\4d2ab5fb-733d-4285-a41a-9171e340808d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we take<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\229c338e-5e1a-43d6-9b1a-f2f809d904a9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then from (25b)-(25c), we find</p><p><img src="htmlimages\4-2310236x\2170261c-6b95-4b18-8b89-b57f10abfbc6.png" /></p><p><img src="htmlimages\4-2310236x\a06b6a8d-085e-4026-b0be-c488fc561c95.png" /></p><p>where B, C<sub>0</sub> is arbitrary integration constant.</p><p>Substituting<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\48294373-4f26-417b-87d0-fce5633b2751.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\df774e07-d739-4fad-b96f-432f44c2e873.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\c282b546-e1ea-406a-91d0-327585bde5cd.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> into (25d) and setting all the coefficients of powers of X to be zero, we obtain a system of nonlinear algebraic equations</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94102"><label>(26)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\efbb3086-6e27-4858-94dc-609a2416a6af.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By solving it, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94103"><label>(27)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\c9ad9794-8c20-4b83-9475-5be31aeb3d6f.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\4ec2002f-bc84-4d2d-85c7-f0582b70f29b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is an arbitrary constant.</p><p>Using the conditions (27) in (14), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94104"><label>(28)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\5ba6f214-1dda-4a17-bb71-29311eaf5263.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Combining (28) with (13), we obtain the exact solutions to (13) as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94105"><label>(29a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\1a883008-ef5f-4299-9830-e6ba68383802.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94106"><label>(29b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\a39ba379-82cf-497e-9c2d-b09829cf8f6e.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then the exact solutions to the generalized Zakharov equation can be written as</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94107"><label>(30)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\b56d5372-dd0c-4cdd-90e3-81bad55355b7.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94108"><label>(31)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\81edd64d-137e-4af1-a20b-43aa1f3e7b7d.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Comparing the results with the works studied before, it can be seen these are new results for the system (1).</p><p>Case 2 When<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\b9bcd792-f194-43a0-bd67-864a5cbe3597.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, take<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\c654b42c-8c91-4b0a-984c-8497e12d9e2e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then from (25b)-(25c), we find</p><p><img src="htmlimages\4-2310236x\d8dbfa34-456a-4a68-be1b-084cdbdaed84.png" /></p><p><img src="htmlimages\4-2310236x\72a02c73-10c1-41aa-aaf5-9d0927cc53b1.png" /></p><p>Substituting<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\6c1d7c75-5a7c-443d-bdf0-ce374aafbc1e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\87419948-30e6-4a3e-a9f3-21c75402703f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\4-2310236x\43c38eb2-4e1b-4956-9380-3ba3aa2b5d17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> into (25d), and setting all the coefficients of powers of X to be zero, we obtain a system of nonlinear algebraic equation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94109"><label>(32)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\deb2b2ea-8b54-4ffc-895d-01140491d3d8.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By solving it, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94110"><label>(33a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\4865ea67-00af-4ddc-801a-a862b230fb34.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94111"><label>(33b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\22dfa6a8-ec3e-4f85-b5a0-525825a77311.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Using the conditions (33a), (33b) in (14) respectively, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94112"><label>(34)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\26da2e7c-6b35-46d6-ae1a-928aa35bb1e9.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>i.e.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44896-formula94113"><label>(35)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\4-2310236x\c45be33a-c100-4e49-abe1-4c91e7a889fd.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Combining (35) with (13), we obtain the exact solutions to (13) which were same with the case m = 1.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Conclusion</title><p>In this paper, we discussed how to construct the exact solutions for the generalized Zakharov equation by using the first integral method. Many new exact explicit solutions with arbitrary constant, peaked wave solutions are obtained, they may be important for the explanation of some practical physical problems. The performance of the method shows it is reliable and effective to give more exact solutions, we deduce that the method can be extended to solve many systems of nonlinear PDE which are arising in the theory of soliton and other fields.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>This study was technically supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11371267 and the Scientific Research Foundation of the Education Department of Sichuan Province of China under Grant No. 12ZA135.</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.44896-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Malomed, B., Anderson, D., Lisak, M., Quiroga-Teixeiro, M.L. and Stenflo, L. (1997) Dynamics of Solitary Waves in the Zakharov Model Equations. 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