Lie symmetries, exact solution and conservation laws of (2 + 1)-dimensional time fractional Kadomtsev–Petviashvili system

Abstract In this paper, Lie symmetry analysis method is applied to the ( 2 + 1 ) (2+1) -dimensional time fractional Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) system, which is an important model in mathematical physics. We obtain all the Lie symmetries admitted by the KP system and use them to reduce the ( 2 + 1 ) (2+1) -dimensional fractional partial differential equations with Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative to some ( 1 + 1 ) (1+1) -dimensional fractional partial differential equations with Erdélyi–Kober fractional derivative or Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative, thereby getting some exact solutions of the reduced equations. In addition, the new conservation theorem and the generalization of Noether operators are developed to construct the conservation laws for the system studied.