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Hyperdeterminants as integrable discrete systems

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We give the basic definitions and some theoretical results about hyperdeterminants, introduced by A. Cayley in 1845. We prove integrability (understood as 4d-consistency) of a nonlinear difference equation defined by the 2x2x2-hyperdeterminant. This result gives rise to the following hypothesis: the difference equations defined by hyperdeterminants of any size are integrable. We show that this hypothesis already fails in the case of the 2x2x2x2-hyperdeterminant.

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@article{arxiv.0903.3864,
  title  = {Hyperdeterminants as integrable discrete systems},
  author = {Sergey P. Tsarev and Thomas Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3864},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Standard LaTeX, 11 pages. v2: corrected a small misprint in the abstract

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