TURKISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, cilt.41, sa.6, ss.1467-1476, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
We present a novel hierarchy of AKNS integrable couplings based on a specific semidirect sum of Lie algebras associated with sl(2). By applying the variational identity, we derive a bi-Hamiltonian structure of the resulting coupling systems, thereby showing their Liouville integrability.