Abundant Similarity Reductions and Dromion-Like Solutions to the Generalized Kroteweg-de Vries Equation in the (2+-1)-Dimensional Space

In this paper,eight types of (1-+1)-dimensional similarity reductions which contain variable coefficient equation,are obtained for the generalized KdV equation in (2+1)-dimensional space arising from the multidimensional isospectral flows associated with the second-order scalar operators by using the direct method.In addition,the cnoidal wave solution and dromion-like solution are also derived by using the reduced nonlinear ordinary differential equations.The (1+1) dromion obtained by Lou [J.Phys.A28 (1995) 7227] and Zhang [Chin.Phys.9 (2000) 1] is only a special case of our results.Moreover,some properties of the dromion-like solutions are analyzed.