Expanding integrable models of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

By using a few Lie algebras and the corresponding loop algebras, we establish some isospectral problems whose compatibility conditions give rise to a few various expanding integrable models (including integrable couplings) of the well-known nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The Hamiltonian forms of two of them are generated by making use of the variational identity. Finally, we propose an efficient method for generating a nonlinear integrable coupling of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.