Gürses, MetinPekcan, Aslı2022-01-282022-01-282021-061007-5704http://hdl.handle.net/11693/76888In 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 equationsEnglishAblowitz-Musslimani type of reductions(2 + 1)-dimensional negative AKNS systemsHirota methodSoliton solutionsArticle10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.105736