Towards an exhaustive classification of the star-triangle relation. II

Abstract

For pt.I see ibid, vol.17, p.1251 (1984). The authors continue their study of the star-triangle relation for two-component spin models, with the help of the inversion relation. The conclusion is that the most general interaction-round-a-face models (16 non-zero parameters) that satisfy the star-triangle relations are mainly Baxter (1972) and Fan and Wu (1970) models. In this way they recover Krichever's result (1981) for the classification of the star-triangle relations for vertex models. They sketch a generalisation of this approach to models with excluded configurations, to staggered models, and to three-dimensional models (tetrahedron relations).