Multi-dark soliton solutions for the (2 + 1)-dimensional multi-component Maccari system

Based on reduction of the KP hierarchy, the general multi-dark soliton solutions in Gram type determinant forms for the (2+1)-dimensional multi-component Maccari system are constructed. Especially, the two component coupled Maccari system comprising of two component short waves and single-component long waves are discussed in detail. Besides, the dynamics of one and two dark-dark solitons are analyzed. It is shown that the collisions of two dark-dark solitons are elastic by asymptotic analysis. Additionally, the two dark-dark solitons bound states are studied through two different cases (stationary and moving cases). The bound states can exist up to arbitrary order in the stationary case, however, only two-soliton bound state exists in the moving case. Besides, the oblique stationary bound state can be generated for all possible combinations of nonlinearity coefficients consisting of positive, negative and mixed cases. Nevertheless, the parallel stationary and the moving bound states are only possible when nonlinearity coefficients take opposite signs.