Higher-dimensional integrable deformations of the modified KdV equation

The derivation of nonlinear integrable evolution partial differential equations in higher dimensions has always been the holy grail in the field of integrability. The well-known modified KdV equation is a prototypical example of an integrable evolution equation in one spatial dimension. Do there exist integrable analogs of the modified KdV equation in higher spatial dimensions? In what follows, we present a positive answer to this question. In particular, rewriting the (1+1)-dimensional integrable modified KdV equation in conservation forms and adding deformation mappings during the process allows one to construct higher-dimensional integrable equations. Further, we illustrate this idea with examples from the modified KdV hierarchy and also present the Lax pairs of these higher-dimensional integrable evolution equations.