The chord-diagram summation identity for Dodgson polynomials

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Let D0D0nD_0\in \mathcal{D}^n_0 with nNn\in \mathbb{N}^{\ell} and N=niN=\sum n_i. For the chord diagrams DD in DNn\mathcal{D}^n_N, let s(D)s(D) be the number of chords and let ED0E_D^0 denote the set of uncoloured edges, with χΓ(uv)\chi_{\Gamma}^{(u|v)} the associated contraction of Dirac matrices. Define

Zij(D0)=EP(ED0i)(ΨΓ)NE(E+1)!Y(E,ED0j).Z_{ij}(D_0)=\sum_{\mathcal{E}\in \mathcal{P}(E_{D_0}^i)}(-\Psi_{\Gamma})^{N-|\mathcal{E}|}(|\mathcal{E}|+1)!Y(\mathcal{E},E_{D_0}^j).

Here P(ED0i)\mathcal{P}(E_{D_0}^i) is the set of partitions of the ii-coloured base edges, and Y(E,ED0j)Y(\mathcal{E},E_{D_0}^j) is a sum of products of E|\mathcal{E}| Dodgson polynomials ΨΓ,KI,J\Psi_{\Gamma,K}^{I,J} with I=Ek=J|I|=|E_k|=|J| and K=K=\emptyset. The chord-diagram summation identity. One has

DDNn(2)s(D)(u,v)ED0χΓ(uv)=(2)(Z12(D0)+Z21(D0)).\sum_{D\in \mathcal{D}^n_N}(-2)^{s(D)}\prod_{(u,v)\in E_D^0}\chi_{\Gamma}^{(u|v)}=(-2)^\ell\bigl(Z_{12}(D_0)+Z_{21}(D_0)\bigr).

This is presented as a corollary-level identity following the preceding iterative chord-addition theorem; the supplied text gives no evidence that it is conjectural or unresolved.

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Marcel Golz, “Contraction of Dirac matrices via chord diagrams”, arXiv:1710.05164 (2018).

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