Novel interaction phenomena of the (3+1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation*

In this paper, we give the general interaction solution to the (3+1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation. The general interaction solution contains the classical interaction solution. As an example, by using the generalized bilinear method and symbolic computation by using Maple software, novel interaction solutions under certain constraints of the (3+1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation are obtained. Via three-dimensional plots, contour plots and density plots with the help of Maple, the physical characteristics and structures of these waves are described very well. These solutions greatly enrich the exact solutions to the (3+1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation found in the existing literature.