JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, vol.70, no.5, pp.1165-1166, 2001 (SCI-Expanded)
It is shown that a generalized Ito system of four coupled nonlinear evolution equations passes the Painleve test for integrability in five distinct cases, two of which were introduced recently by Tam et al. [H. W. Tam, X. B. Hu, D. L. Wang: J. Phys. Sec. Jpn. 68 (1999) 369]. A conjecture is formulated on integrability of a vector generalization of the Ito system.