Nonlocal symmetry and soliton–cnoidal wave solutions of the Bogoyavlenskii coupled KdV system

The truncated Painleve expansion is developed to construct Backlund transformations and nonlocal symmetries of the Bogoyavlenskii coupled KdV (BcKdV) system. The Schwarzian form of BcKdV system is found while the nonlocal symmetry is localized to offer the corresponding nonlocal group. Furthermore, the BcKdV system is verified to have a consistent Riccati expansion (CRE). Stemming from the consistent tan-function expansion (CTE), which is a special form of CRE, the soliton–cnoidal wave solutions are explicitly studied.