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Abstract

We apply the two-variable (, )-expansion method to construct new exact traveling wave solutions with parameters of the nonlinear ()-dimensional KdV-mKdV equation. This method can be thought of as the generalization of the well-known ()-expansion method given recently by M. Wang et al. When the parameters are replaced by special values, the well-known solitary wave solutions of this equation are rediscovered from the traveling waves. It is shown that the proposed method provides a more general powerful mathematical tool for solving nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics.