Lump Solutions to the BKP Equation by Symbolic Computation

Lump solutions are rationally localized in all directions in the space. A general class of lump solutions to the (2+1)-dimensional B-Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (BKP) equation is presented through symbolic computation with Maple. The Hirota bilinear form of the equation is the starting point in the computation process. Like the KP equation, the resulting lump solutions contain six arbitrary parameters. Two of the parameters are due to the translation invariances of the BKP equation with the independent variables, and the other four need to satisfy a nonzero determinant condition and the positivity condition, which guarantee analyticity and rational localization of the solutions