Abstract
The known (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equation, the coupled KP equation with three potentials and a new (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equation are decomposed into systems of solvable ordinary differential equations with the help of the (1+1)-dimensional AKNS equations. The Abel–Jacobi coordinates are introduced to straighten out the associated flows, from which algebraic-geometrical solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equation, the coupled KP equation and the (3+1)-dimensional evolution equation are explicitly given in terms of the Riemann theta functions.