Vertex models and related algebras

P. Ramadevi

Doron Gepner

We construct new solvable vertex models based on the spin representation of the Lie algebra Bk. We use these models to study the algebraic structure underlying such vertex theories. We show that all the Bk spin vertex models obey a version of the BMW algebra along with extra relations that are called n–CB (conformal braiding) algebras. These algebras were discussed before for various IRF (interaction round the face) models. Here we establish that the same algebras hold for vertex models.

Xue-Ning Wu

Alexander A. Belavin, Doron Gepner, Hans Wenzl

We describe the Boltzmann weights of the Dk algebra spin vertex models. Thus, we find the SO(N) spin vertex models, for any N, completing the Bk case found earlier. We further check that the real (self–dual) SO(N) models obey quantum algebras, which are the Birman–Murakami–Wenzl (BMW) algebra for three blocks, and certain generalizations, which include the BMW algebra as a sub–algebra, for four and five blocks. In the case of five blocks, the B4 model is shown to satisfy additional twenty new relations, which are given. The D6 model is shown to obey two additional relations.

Pete Rigas

We implement the quantum inverse scattering method for the 4-vertex model. In comparison to previous works of the author which examined the 6-vertex, and 20-vertex, models, the 4-vertex model exhibits different characteristics, ranging from L-operators expressed in terms of projectors and Pauli matrices to algebraic and combinatorial properties, including Poisson structure and boxed plane partitions. With far fewer computations with an L-operator provided for the 4-vertex model by Bogoliubov in 2007, in comparison to those for L-operators of the 6, and 20, vertex models, from lower order expansions of the transfer matrix we derive a system of relations from the structure of operators that can be leveraged for studying characteristics of the higher-spin XXX chain in the weak finite volume limit. In comparison to quantum inverse scattering methods for the 6, and 20, vertex models which can be used to further study integrability, and exact solvability, an adaptation of such an approach for the 4-vertex model can be used to approximate, asymptotically in the weak finite volume limit, sixteen brackets which generate the Poisson structure. From explicit relations for operators of the 4-vertex transfer matrix, we conclude by discussing corresponding aspects of the Yang-Baxter algebra, which is closely related to the operators obtained from products of L-operators for approximating the transfer, and quantum monodromy, matrices. The structure of computations from L-operators of the 4-vertex model directly transfers to L-operators of the higher-spin XXX chain, revealing a similar structure of another Yang-Baxter algebra of interest.

R. Z. Bariev, Yu.V. Kozhinov