Non-Abelian Hirota-Miwa Equations for the KPZ Universality Class

Abstract

This work introduces an algebraic framework yielding explicit, closed matrix differential-difference equations for eighteen models in the exactly solvable sector of the KPZ universality class across four scaling regimes. By organizing Fredholm determinant data into an overdetermined linear problem on a directed lattice graph, we derive a compatibility system termed the diamond equations. Elementary seed data extracted from the shift structure of the Fredholm kernel provides simple solutions to this system. We then construct a Darboux transformation to compress the infinite-dimensional Fredholm data into a finite-dimensional matrix observable. We show this dressing procedure preserves the diamond equations; consequently the resulting matrix observable obeys the same nonlinear structure as the initial seed data. Verifying a closed nonlinear equation for any specific model thus reduces to checking a handful of linear conditions on its kernel data. Under a scalar reduction, the framework produces variable-coefficient Hirota-Miwa equations for Fredholm determinants, recovering the one-point bilinear equations of the author's earlier work as specializations. To supply the necessary seed data, a product graph construction with admissible propagators builds multipoint data in the fully discrete regime, while Euclidean division in a polynomial quotient algebra handles vertex and polymer models. Finally, we demonstrate the diamond equations are a gauge-equivalent reparametrization of the non-abelian Hirota-Miwa system, a central system in classical integrability theory.