New types of exact solutions for a breaking soliton equation

In this paper based on a system of Riccati equations, we present a newly generally projective Riccati equation expansion method and its algorithm, which can be used to construct more new exact solutions of nonlinear differential equations in mathematical physics. A typical breaking soliton equation is chosen to illustrate our algorithm such that more families of new exact solutions are obtained, which contain soliton-like solutions and periodic solutions. This algorithm can also be applied to other nonlinear differential equations. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.