摘要:In this paper, we investigate the exact solutions and conservation laws of a general Hirota equation. Firstly, the N-fold Darboux transformation of this equation is proposed. Then by choosing three kinds of seed solutions, the multisoliton solutions, breather solutions, and rogue wave solutions of the general Hirota equation are obtained based on the Darboux transformation. Finally, the conservation laws of this equation are derived by using its linear spectral problem. The results in this paper may be useful in the study of ultrashort optical solitons in optical fibers.