In this Rapid Communication we express the partition function of the integrable elliptic solid-on-solid model with domain-wall boundary conditions as a single determinant. This representation appears naturally as the solution of a system of functional equations governing the model's partition function.
In this work, we study an elliptic solid-on-solid model with domain-wall boundaries having the elliptic quantum group Ep,γ[gl2^] as its underlying symmetry algebra. We elaborate on results previously presented in Galleas [Phys. Rev. E 94, 010102 (2016)] and extend our analysis to include continuous families of single determinantal representations for the model’s partition function. Interestingly, our families of representations are parameterized by two continuous complex variables which can be arbitrarily chosen without affecting the partition function.
On the elliptic gl2 solid-on-solid model: functional relations and determinants
In this work we study an elliptic solid-on-solid model with domain-wall boundaries having the elliptic quantum group Ep,γ[gl2] as its underlying symmetry algebra. We elaborate on results previously presented by the author and extend our analysis to include continuous families of single determinantal representations for the model's partition function. Interestingly, our families of representations are parameterized by two continuous complex variables which can be arbitrarily chosen without affecting the partition function.
We review the (algebraic-)functional method devised by Galleas and further developed by Galleas and the author.We first explain the method using the simplest example: the computation of the partition function for the six-vertex model with domainwall boundary conditions.At the heart of the method lies a linear functional equation for the partition function.After deriving this equation we outline its analysis.The result is a closed expression in the form of a symmetrized sum -or, equivalently, multiple-integral formula -that can be rewritten to recover Izergin's determinant.Special attention is paid to the relation with other approaches.In particular we show that the Korepin-Izergin approach can be recovered within the functional method.We comment on the functional method's range of applicability, and review how it is adapted to the technically more involved example of the elliptic solid-on-solid model with domain walls and a reflecting end.We present a new formula for the partition function of the latter, which was expressed as a determinant by Tsuchiya-Filali-Kitanine.Our result takes the form of a 'crossing-symmetrized' sum with 2 L terms featuring the elliptic domain-wall partition function, which appears to be new also in the limiting case of the six-vertex model.Further taking the rational limit we recover the expression obtained by Frassek using the boundary perimeter Bethe ansatz.
The six-vertex model on an N × N square lattice with domain wall boundary conditions is considered. A Fredholm determinant representation for the partition function of the model is given. The kernel of the corresponding integral operator is of the so-called integrable type, and involves classical orthogonal polynomials. From this representation, a ‘reconstruction’ formula is proposed, which expresses the partition function as the trace of a suitably chosen quantum operator, in the spirit of corner transfer matrix and vertex operator approaches to integrable spin models.