A recurrent relation for the oscillator specialization of the c(2)-weight system

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Suppose that ξ(G)\xi(G) is a 4-invariant of graphs extending the specialization of the sl(2)\mathfrak{sl}(2)-weight system at c=332c=-\frac{3}{32}. Let GG be a graph, let xx be a vertex of degree 22, and let A={a1,a2}A=\{a_1,a_2\} be its neighbors. Write GxG_x for the graph obtained by deleting xx, Gx\overline{G}_x for the graph obtained by deleting xx and inverting the edge (a1,a2)(a_1,a_2), and Gxa1G_x^{a_1} for the graph obtained from GxG_x by applying the 2T transform to (a1,a2)(a_1,a_2) and deleting a1a_1. The recurrent relation conjecture. The following relation holds:

ξ(G)=(3321)ξ(Gx)12ξ(Gx)+12(332)ξ(Gxa1).\xi(G)=\left(-\frac{3}{32}-1\right)\xi(G_x)-\frac{1}{2}\xi(\overline{G}_x)+\frac{1}{2}\cdot\left(-\frac{3}{32}\right)\xi(G_x^{a_1}).

This would provide a recurrence for the conjectural 4-invariant extending the c=332c=-\frac{3}{32} specialization, whose existence is motivated by the oscillator representation of sl(2)\mathfrak{sl}(2).

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Daniil Fomichev, Maksim Karev, Fedor Pavutnitskiy and Sergey Usanov, “sl(2)-weight system does not extend to a graph 4-invariant”, arXiv:2607.24217 (2026).

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