%0 Journal Article %T An integrable decomposition of the Manakov equation %A Chen %A Shouting %A Zhou %A Ruguang %J Computational & Applied Mathematics %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1807-03022012000100001 %X an integrable decomposition of the manakov equation is presented. a pair of new finite-dimensional integrable hamiltonian systems which constitute the integrable decomposition of the manakov equation are obtained. mathematical subject classification: 37k10. %K binary nonlinearization of the spectral problem %K the 4-component akns equation %K the manakov equation %K integrable decomposition. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-03022012000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en