Bäcklund transformations, consistent Riccati expansion solvability, and soliton-cnoidal interaction wave solutions of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation

The famous Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation is a classical equation in soliton theory. A Bäcklund transformation between the KP equation and the Schwarzian KP equation is demonstrated by means of the truncated Painlevé expansion in this paper. One-parameter group transformations and one-parameter subgroup-invariant solutions for the extended KP equation are obtained. The consistent Riccati expansion (CRE) solvability of the KP equation is proved. Some interaction structures between soliton-cnoidal waves are obtained by CRE and several evolution graphs and density graphs are plotted.