Conjectured coefficients in the transfer-matrix expansion for Camassa–Holm peakons

Let τm(z)\tau_m(z) be the transfer matrices, let Λ(z)\Lambda(z) be the spectral function, and let h(k)\mathfrak h^{(k)} denote the Hamiltonians defined by the degree-11 terms of the transfer matrices. For each mm, write

τm(z)=j=1mΛ(z)j0<kjkj1k1,k1+k2++kj=maj(k1,k2,,kj),h(k1)h(k2)h(kj),\tau_m(z) = \sum_{j=1}^m\Lambda(z)^j\sum_{0< k_j\leq k_{j-1}\leq\cdots\leq k_1,\,k_1+k_2+\cdots+k_j=m} a_j(k_1,k_2,\ldots,k_j)\\,\mathfrak h^{(k_1)}\mathfrak h^{(k_2)}\cdots\mathfrak h^{(k_j)},

with a1(m)=1a_1(m)=1.

Conjectured coefficient formula. The coefficients satisfy

am(1,1,,1)=1,a_m(1,1,\ldots,1)=1,

and

aj+1(mj,1,,1j)=mmj,0j<m1.a_{j+1}(m-j,\underbrace{1,\ldots,1}_{j})=\frac{m}{m-j},\qquad 0\leq j<m-1.

The other coefficients aj(k1,k2,,kj)a_j(k_1,k_2,\ldots,k_j) remain to be determined.

These formulas are suggested by the explicit transfer matrices through m=7m=7; the remaining coefficients are not determined in the source, so the conjecture is open.

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Primary source

J. Avan, L. Frappat and E. Ragoucy, “Quadratic Poisson brackets for the Camassa–Holm peakons”, arXiv:2512.11066 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2508.18731, arXiv:2503.11912, arXiv:2001.11599, arXiv:1808.01008.

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