The Liouville integrability of integrable couplings of Volterra lattice equation

A hierarchy of integrable couplings of Volterra lattice equations with three potentials is proposed, which is derived from a new discrete six-by-six matrix spectral problem. Moreover, by means of the discrete variational identity on semi-direct sums of Lie algebra, the two Hamiltonian forms are deduced for each lattice equation in the resulting hierarchy. A strong symmetry operator of the resulting hierarchy is given. Finally, we prove that the hierarchy of the resulting Hamiltonian equations are all Liouville integrable discrete Hamiltonian systems.