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A. Morozov

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arXiv2026

Towards differential expansion for generic representations

We report the first results of phenomenological analysis, based on extended set of explicitly calculated colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials in \cite{knotebook}. They concern differential expansion (DE), which separates the dependencies on the knot ${\cal K}$ and the representation $R$. %of colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials. DE is well understood for symmetric and rectangular representations, while for non-rectangular $R$ even the knot-independent basis $Z_R^X$ of DE is not known. We concentrate on two issues: the possible derivation of DE and on improved characteristic of its defect. We discuss how evolution families -- twist knots, double braids and 3-pretzels -- can be used to find DE by a peculiar triangular transformation of evolution coefficients. Once $Z^R_X$ are found for particular family, they are expected to stay basically the same for arbitrary knots -- modulo controllable reductions, characterized by the defect of DE, which puts knots into different universality classes. Contrary to original expectation, these classes appear labeled not by a single number $δ^{\cal K}$, but by a whole non-decreasing sequence $\{k_j\}$, which is squeezed between two staircases, ${ entier}\!\left(\frac{j-1}{δ+1}\right)\leq k_j\leq{ entier}\!\left(\frac{j-1}{{\rm deg}\,Δ}\right)$, where the upper bound involves Alexander polynomial $Δ(q^2)$ and follows from the continuation of the Melvin--Morton--Rozansky-Kashaev limit to $A=q^{-m}$ with $m>0$, when the limit gives a {\it positive} power of Alexander. The old assumption $δ+1={\rm deg}\,Δ$ is oversimplified and fails for 19 non-alternating knots with 11 and 12 crossings. Last, we list the differences of non-rectangularly colored HOMFLY for various mutant pairs to demonstrate their universality (knot-independence) and nice consistency with the spirit of DE.

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arXiv2026

What a knot sees at a root of unity

HOMFLY-PT polynomials describe analytic continuation of Wilson averages in Chern-Simons theory to arbitrary complex values of two independent parameters $q$ and $A$. They also depend on the knot and representation of the gauge group. However, when $q^2$ is a primitive $m$-th root of unity, e.g. $q=\pm e^{iπ/m}$, these polynomials exhibit a universal (knot-independent) factorization: $H_R$ becomes the product of the polynomials for the $m$-core of the Young diagram $R$ and of one and the same factor $H_{[m]}$ for every $m$-ribbon of $R$. In all the examples which we computed this factor is just the special polynomial at $A^m$. At $q=\pm1$ factorization follows from the singularity of the cabled HOMFLY, which is the same for all representations. At $m>1$ the relevant singularity is in the projector, and what survives of it is a finite sum of braids $X_m$ -- the $m$-th power sum inside the cable, which can be freely moved through the other strands. For the proof we use the Murnaghan-Nakayama rule and the Adams operation. Discovery of this hidden structure explains the old factorization puzzle.

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arXiv2026

Factorization of differential expansion for non-rectangular representations

Factorization of the differential expansion coefficients for HOMFLY-PT polynomials of double braids, discovered in arXiv:1606.06015 in the case of rectangular representations $R$, is extended to the first non-rectangular representations $R=[2,1]$ and $R=[3,1]$. This increases chances that such factorization will take place for generic $R$, thus fixing the shape of the DE. We illustrate the power of the method by conjecturing the DE-induced expression for double-braid polynomials for all $R=[r,1]$. In variance with rectangular case, the knowledge for double braids is not fully sufficient to deduce the exclusive Racah matrix $\bar S$ -- the entries in the sectors with non-trivial multiplicities sum up and remain unseparated. Still a considerable piece of the matrix is extracted directly and its other elements can be found by solving the unitarity constraints.

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arXiv2026

Determinantal representation of colored HOMFLY for double braids

Starting from the known differential expansions, we express the HOMFLY-PT polynomials of twist and antiparallel double-braid knots in rectangular representations $[r^s]$ as determinants of $r\times r$ and $s\times s$ matrices. We first give an elementary derivation for the figure-eight knot and then re-sum the KNTZ formulas for twist and double-braid evolution. The resulting matrices are constructed from single-hook evolution coefficients and explicit representation-dependent weights. These formulas provide a starting point for investigating possible extensions of knot polynomials to KP/Toda $τ$-functions. Extensions to non-rectangular representations and to more general knot families remain open problems.

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arXiv2026

Non-symmetric triads and Baker-Akhiezer functions

The symmetric Macdonald polynomial at peculiar values of parameter $t=q^{-m}$, $m\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge 0}$ is naturally split into non-symmetric parts, which are the (quasi)polynomial Baker-Akhiezer (BA) functions. One may think this is due to symmetricity, and one just picks up this way non-symmetric parts already containing all the information. However, we demonstrate that, in the case of {\bf non-symmetric} Macdonald polynomials, it still works, though each single BA function splits into $N!$ distinct (quasi)polynomial BA functions. The sum of these functions gives rise to the universal solution of the eigenstate problem for the Cherednik Hamiltonians. Extending to arbitrary values of $t$ is also immediate giving rise to counterparts of the Noumi-Shiraishi power series. Altogether, this power series and its reductions to non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials and to BA functions form a non-symmetric triad. There are $N!$ different branches of the non-symmetric triad, each branch being split into $N!$ distinct triads, and of these $(N!)^2$ triads $N!(N-1)!$ are independent. We describe in detail the simplest $N=2$ case.

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arXiv2026

Cherednik integrable system: eigenfunctions at generic eigenvalues

Symmetric Macdonald polynomials of $N$ variables provide eigenfunctions of the $N$-body trigonometric Ruijsenaars-Schneider integrable system at particular eigenvalues. In order to construct eigenfunctions with arbitrary eigenvalues, M. Noumi and J. Shiraishi used a recursion in $N$ (branching rule) for the symmetric Macdonald polynomials and analytically continued them. This generated a power series, which is a part of triad (universal solution). In the present paper, we demonstrate that a similar procedure is available for another integrable system, $N$-body Cherednik integrable system inspired by the DAHA of type $A$, which has non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials as its polynomial eigenfunctions. However, in this system, the generic eigenfunction is more complicated: it is not just a simple power series as in the Noumi-Shiraishi case, but has an involved structure with $N!$ branches, each of them being a sum over the Weyl chambers of power series of the Noumi-Shiraishi type. As an illustration, we also provide explicit formulas for particular cases.

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arXiv2026

Towards Equations for String Amplitudes

Generic Feynman integrals are widely studied as solutions of Picard-Fuchs equations on moduli spaces of their parameters, and this calls for consideration of this phenomenon at a more basic level - of string amplitudes which are integrals over true non-singular module space of Riemann surfaces and their various generalizations. The main puzzle here is that a single string amplitude involves mane different particle diagrams, corresponding to different parts of the same moduli space, but different particle diagrams are usually believed to satisfy different equations, not unified into a common entity. We begin investigation of this problem, starting from Koba-Nielsen diagrams. While there is nothing interesting at this level for particles, the tree-level open bosonic string amplitudes satisfy non-trivial linear difference equations in kinematic variables. Moreover, the integration-by-parts on moduli space, standing behind Picard-Fuchs equations for particle loops, for strings are operative already at the tree level. We construct a complete system of such equations for arbitrary n-point tree amplitudes, with the number of independent relations matching the kinematic parameters. In variance with the particle case equations are difference ones rather than differential. The low-energy limit $α\to 0$ smoothly recovers the algebraic QFT structure.

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arXiv2026

More on Kashaev limits of the quantum $A$-polynomials

"Colored" knot polynomials satisfy difference equation w.r.t. the highest weights of the underlying representation -- which in the case of symmetrically colored Jones are named "quantum $A$-polynomials". In the double scaling quasiclassical (Kashaev) limit, when representation size $r\sim \hbar^{-1}$, there are different phases -- in one of them the classical action vanishes and in another one it is a deformation of hyperbolic volume (of a knot complement in $S^3$). This corresponds to a splitting of the non-homogeneous version of the quantum $A$-polynomial into two pieces, which we illustrate by more examples than just a figure-eight knot $4_1$ in the original paper. From the point of view of quasiclassics, hyperbolic volume is just an integration constant, which is not fully determined by the $A$-polynomial equation -- and actually remains ambiguous in this formalism. As a byproduct, we expect that classical $A$-polynomial at $L=1$ becomes proportional to Alexander: $A^{\cal K}(1,M)\sim Δ^{\cal K}(M)$ -- this seems true, but $A$ should be consistent with the polynomiality of {\it non-homogeneous quantum} ${\cal A}$-polynomial, what sometime implies that it is not minimal.

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arXiv2026

Generating twisted Cherednik eigenfunctions

Hamiltonians ${\cal H}^{a}_k$ of new integrable systems associated with the integer rays $(1,a)$ (commutative subalgebras) of Ding-Iohara-Miki (DIM) algebra in the $N$-body representation are closely related to commuting twisted Cherednik Hamiltonians $\mathfrak{C}_i^{(a)}$, ${\cal H}^{a}_k = \sum_{i=1}^N (\mathfrak{C}_i^{(a)})^k$. Moreover, symmetric combinations of eigenfunctions in the twisted Cherednik system were recently shown to produce the DIM Hamiltonian eigenstates. We explicitly construct these twisted Cherednik eigenfunctions recurrently by action of some (creation and permutation) operations. It resembles of a far-going generalization of Kirillov-Noumi operators, but exact relation remains to be specified.

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arXiv2026

Khovanov complexes for bipartite links

Recently, for a limited class for bipartite links, the complicated Khovanov-Rozansky matrix factorization technique was reduced to an analogue of elementary Kauffman-Khovanov cycle calculus for an arbitrary $N$. In this note, we demonstrate the consistency of such reduction with the computation of the bipartite Khovanov polynomials for $N=2$. Namely, we explain how the Kauffman-Khovanov $2^2$-hypercube is shrinked to the bipartite 3-hypercube.

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arXiv2026

Twisted Cherednik spectrum as a $q,t$-deformation

The common eigenfunctions of the twisted Cherednik operators can be first analyzed in the limit of $q\longrightarrow 1$. Then, the polynomial eigenfunctions form a simple set originating from the symmetric ground state of non-vanishing degree and excitations over it, described by non-symmetric polynomials of higher degrees and enumerated by weak compositions. This pattern is inherited by the full spectrum at $q\neq 1$, which can be considered as a deformation. The whole story looks like a typical NP problem: the Cherednik equations are difficult to solve, but easy to check the solution once it is somehow found.

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arXiv2026

Reductions in Khovanov-Rozansky operator formalism

Sophisticated Khovanov-Rozansky (KhR) description of knot invariants in the fundamental representation can be reformulated in terms of bicomplex with a simple physical meaning. Namely, the counterintuitive matrix factorization is substituted by simple operators $D$, locally constructed for every MOY resolution of a link diagram, which becomes nilpotent when the diagram has no external lines. Operators for different resolutions are related by equally simple conjugations $χ^{(\pm)}$. The KhR procedure then splits in two steps - defining ``vertical'' cohomologies of $D$, which are associated with particular resolutions and will be put at vertices of the hypercube, and conjugations $χ^{(\pm)}$, that define morphisms along its edges. As usual, standard combinations of morphisms are nilpotent, and one can define ``horizontal'' cohomologies - which are then combined into Poincaré polynomial, called KhR polynomial in application to links. This construction remains global in the sense that resulting cohomologies depend on the entire link diagram, but all its building blocks, including the operators and morphisms are local in the sense that they are defined for its particular vertices. Sometimes, this allows simple local reductions, allowing to eliminate or change particular vertices or sets of those. Along with the obvious case of Reidemeister equivalencies this happens also for antiparallel-lock tangles, what is responsible for simplification of bipartite calculus. In the $N=2$ and arbitrary $N$ bipartite cases, one can also provide global reductions transferring the local construction of the KhR double-complex to the global construction of the Khovanov(-like) single-complex.

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arXiv2026

Experimental Scaling of Diffraction Efficiency in Laser-Induced Plasma Gratings

We demonstrate efficient diffraction of intense ultrashort laser pulses using optical-field-ionization-induced plasma-neutral gratings formed by spatially structured ionization of a neutral molecular gas in the interference field of two femtosecond pump pulses. The transient refractive index modulation of the plasma structure persists for at least 10 picoseconds and is used to diffract intense femtosecond signal pulses into the 1st order of diffraction with an average efficiency of up to 35$\%$. Plasma gratings are shown to provide stable diffraction at signal laser intensities greater than $ 10^{14}\text{ W/cm}^2$, exceeding the damage thresholds of conventional solid-state optics by more than two orders of magnitude, continuously for hours at a 10-Hz repetition rate. The experimental diffraction efficiency scales with the grating aperture allowing for a larger millimeter-scale plasma optic, increases with the pump energy and electron density, and reaches a maximum at a specific grating length in agreement with the coupled-mode theory for periodic media. These results demonstrate the scalability, tunability, and high damage threshold of transmissive plasma-based photonic structures, opening new prospects for controlling multi-petawatt laser beams.

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arXiv2026

Symmetric polynomials: DIM integrable systems versus twisted Cherednik systems

We discuss interrelations between eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonians associated with the commutative (integer ray) subalgebras of the Ding-Iohara-Miki algebra and those of the twisted Cherednik system. In the case of $t=q^{-m}$ with natural $m$, eigenfunctions of the first system of Hamiltonians are the twisted Baker-Akhiezer functions (BAFs) introduced by O. Chalykh, while eigenfunctions of the twisted Cherednik Hamiltonians are twisted non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials. Actually, the twisted Cherednik ground state is symmetric and coincides with a peculiar symmetric BAF. We lift this correspondence to excited states, and claim that both Cherednik eigenfunctions and BAF's can be combined to produce symmetric functions, which coincide with each other and are eigenfunctions of the both DIM Hamiltonians and power sums of the twisted Cherednik Hamiltonians at once. This reflects the correspondence between the DIM algebra and the spherical DAHA explicitly.

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arXiv2026

On the geometric algebras of the Ising model

We revisit the classical transfer matrix solution of the one- and two-dimensional Ising model from the perspective of Clifford and conformal geometric algebras. Building on Kaufman's spinor formulation, we show that all elements entering the solution, including the transfer matrix, its eigenvectors, and the quasiparticle excitations, admit a natural and unified interpretation as elements of an appropriate conformal Clifford algebra. In particular, the transfer matrix can be viewed as a dilation generated by a conformal bivector, while its eigenvectors correspond to null combinations of Clifford generators, closely paralleling the emergence of Majorana fermionic degrees of freedom. In the two-dimensional case, the standard eigenvalue equation for the row-to-row transfer matrix is reinterpreted as a dispersion relation for quasiparticle excitations, exposing the connection between the Ising model and a theory of free Majorana fermions. While all the explicit exact results recovered are well known, this geometric reformulation provides a unified algebraic framework which is compact and physically interpretable. Specifically, this clarifies the role of scale transformations, fermionic modes, and duality in the Ising model. We believe this approach offers a useful pedagogical complement to more conventional fermionic, Grassmann, or field theoretic treatments.

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arXiv2026

Averages of Exponentials from the point of view of Superintegrability

We calculate Gaussian averages of arbitrary exponentials of the matrix variable $X$ with the help of superintegrability, which provides explicit expressions for Schur averages. As in the simpler cases the answer is expressed in terms of Laguerre polynomials, but in a somewhat sophisticated way. It involves triangular sum over partitions, with simple exponential factor and a complicated polynomial prefactor. Some ingredients of the formula are not found in full generality and there is still a room for further work.

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arXiv2026

A new Uncertainty Principle in Machine Learning

Many scientific problems in the context of machine learning can be reduced to the search of polynomial answers in appropriate variables. The Hevisidization of arbitrary polynomial is actually provided by one-and-the same two-layer expression. What prevents the use of this simple idea is the fatal degeneracy of the Heaviside and sigmoid expansions, which traps the steepest-descent evolution at the bottom of canyons, close to the starting point, but far from the desired true minimum. This problem is unavoidable and can be formulated as a peculiar uncertainty principle -- the sharper the minimum, the smoother the canyons. It is a direct analogue of the usual one, which is the pertinent property of the more familiar Fourier expansion. Standard machine learning software fights with this problem empirically, for example, by testing evolutions, originated at randomly distributed starting points and then selecting the best one. Surprisingly or not, phenomena and problems, encountered in ML application to science are pure scientific and belong to physics, not to computer science. On the other hand, they sound slightly different and shed new light on the well-known phenomena -- for example, extend the uncertainty principle from Fourier and, later, wavelet analysis to a new peculiar class of nearly singular sigmoid functions.

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arXiv2026

Correlators in the theory of Integral Discriminants

Integral discriminants provide a simple and fundamental model for non-Gaussian integrals, associated with homogeneous polynomials of degree r in n variables. We argue that, in this context, the study of correlators is equally if not more important. In this paper, we study a natural class of correlators in this model -- the invariant correlators. We suggest a general method to compute invariant correlators using differential operators that act on the partition function. This method allows to compute general invariant correlators in terms of the fundamental invariants. Moreover, in some cases the correlators appear to be simply polynomials in the invariants. This could be an interesting manifestation of superintegrability phenomenon in the theory of integral discriminants.

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