In our previous work (Gürses and Pekcan, 2019, [40]) we started to investigate negative
AKNS(−N) hierarchy in (2 + 1)-dimensions. We were able to obtain only the first three,
N = 0, 1, 2, members of this hierarchy. The main difficulty was the nonexistence of the
Hirota formulation of the AKNS(N) hierarchy for N ≥ 3. Here in this work we overcome this
difficulty for N = 3, 4 and obtain Hirota bilinear forms of (2 + 1)-dimensional AKNS(−N)
equations for these members. We study the local and nonlocal reductions of these systems
of equations and obtain several new integrable local and nonlocal equations in (2 + 1)-
dimensions. We also give one-, two-, and three-soliton solutions of the reduced equations
