简介:Isospectralandnon-isospectralhierarchiesrelatedtoavariablecoefficientPainlev′eintegrableKorteweg-deVries(KdVforshort)equationarederived.Thehierarchiesshareaformalrecursionoperatorwhichisnotarigorousrecursionoperatorandcontainstexplicitly.Bythehereditarystrongsymmetrypropertyoftheformalrecursionoperator,theauthorsconstructtwosetsofsymmetriesandtheirLiealgebrafortheisospectralvariablecoefficientKorteweg-deVries(vcKdVforshort)hierarchy.