On integrability of variable coefficient nonlinear schrodinger equations

Abstract

We apply Painleve test to the most general variable coefficient nonlinear Schrodinger (VCNLS) equations as an attempt to identify integrable classes and compare our results versus those obtained by the use of other tools like group-theoretical approach and the Lax pairs technique of the soliton theory. We presented some exact solutions based on point transformations relating analytic solutions of VCNLS equations for specific choices of the coefficients to those of the standard integrable NLS equation.