Lax pairs for BKM hierarchy

Abstract: We construct Lax pairs for the recently (2023) introduced integrable PDE systems known as the BKM equations. As many known and previously studied integrable systems are special cases of the BKM systems, our construction provides Lax pairs for many integrable hierarchies, including previously studied ones such as Camassa-Holm, Dullin-Gottwald-Holm, cKdV, Ito, and Marvan-Pavlov, as well as new ones. The corresponding pair is related to a Sturm-Liouville operator on the real line whose potential depends rationally on the spectral parameter.