University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 6-20-2016 Hamiltonian Formulations and Symmetry Constraints of Soliton Hierarchies of (1+1)- Dimensional Nonlinear Evolution Equations Solomon Manukure University of South Florida,
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[email protected]. Hamiltonian Formulations and Symmetry Constraints of Soliton Hierarchies of (1+1)-Dimensional Nonlinear Evolution Equations by Solomon Manukure A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Mathematics and Statistics College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Wen-Xiu Ma, Ph.D. Mohamed Elhamdadi, Ph.D. Razvan Teodorescu, Ph.D. Gangaram Ladde, Ph.D. Date of Approval: June 09, 2016 Keywords: Spectral problem, Soliton hierarchy, Hamiltonian formulation, Liouville integrability, Symmetry constraint Copyright c 2016, Solomon Manukure Dedication This doctoral dissertation is dedicated to my mother and the memory of my father. Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank God Almighty for guiding me suc- cessfully through this journey. Without His grace and manifold blessings, I would not have been able to accomplish this feat.