On the non-chiral intermediate long wave equation

We study integrability properties of the non-chiral intermediate long wave equation recently introduced by the authors as a parity-invariant variant of the intermediate long wave equation. For this new equation we: (a) derive a Lax pair, (b) derive a Hirota bilinear form, (c) derive a B\"{a}cklund transformation, (d) use, separately, the B\"{a}cklund transformation and the Lax representation to obtain an infinite number of conservation laws.
Comment: 29 pages