Symmetries, conserved quantities, and hierarchies for some lattice systems with soliton structure

Basic invariants, such as conserved quantities, symmetries, mastersymmetries, and recursion operators are explicitly constructed for the following nonlinear lattice systems: The modified Korteweg–de Vries lattice, the Ablowitz–Ladik lattice, the Brusci–Ragnisco lattice, the Ragnisco–Tu lattice and some cases of the class of integrable systems introduced by Bogoyavlensky. The algorithmic basis for obtaining these quantities is described and the interrelation between the underlying mastersymmetry approach and the Lax pair analysis is discussed. By explicit presentation of the higher-order members of the corresponding hierarchies new completely integrable lattice flows are found. For all systems, multi-Hamiltonian formulations are given.